Extract from the Evaluation of Year One Camden Play Pathfinder Sites, which uses one of Theories Landscapes previous play area as an example of good practice for a special needs school play area;

"In order to provide increased playability for...

Schools and youth groups across the country are being provided with free saplings by the Woodland Trust, which will result in 115,000 trees being planted in school grounds and community spaces. The hedge and copse packs are being distributed as part of the Trust’s Tree for All scheme...

Play London say;

The natural environment offers unrivalled opportunities for free play. When adults think about where they played as children, a majority usually cites a natural environment as their preferred play for play when they were young.

The natural environment also offers many types of "loose parts" to use in play, skimming flat stones over water, breaking off sticks...

CABE calls for an end to ‘KFC’ play spaces

Play Pathfinder Scheme

Theories Landscapes are very happy to have been chosen to design and build 2 playspaces for each of the London boroughs of Camden and Hackney through the Government's Play Pathfinder Initiative.  Camden's Elm Village Playspace has been completed and Sumatra Road's Playground will be finished in the...

" No Risk, No Play" Play entails the inevitability and necessity of risk taking: no risk, no play. Learning through experience, by definition, means engaging with the unfamiliar: that which is not already known. It follows, that to engage with the unfamiliar necessarily entails risk taking, to invite the...