Dear Mr Parker-Dean

Freedom of Information request: FOI-30404

Thank you for your request dated 23 July 2019

Your request will be answered by 20 August 2019

If you have any queries about this request, please contact me, quoting the reference number above.

Yours sincerely,

Jackie Jago
Head of Corporate Services
Corporate Services
Directorate of Communities & Environment
Royal Borough of Greenwich

020 8921 5044
 Room 20 Basement The Town Hall, Wellington Street, London SE18 6PW
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Dear Mr Parker-Dean

Freedom of Information request:  FOI-30404 GM

Thank you for your request dated 23 July 2019

Our response is as follows:

1)    How many council owned public children’s play areas (by which I mean
parks, playgrounds, adventure playgrounds, assault courses and any other
play areas) do you currently operate (latest figures available)

5 adventure play centres, 27 playgrounds in our parks and open spaces and
49 play areas on our housing estates

2)    How many council owned public children’s play areas did you own or
operate in the financial year 2009/2010

5 adventure play centres, 24 in our parks and open spaces, and 42 play
areas on our housing estates.

3)    How many council owned public children’s play areas were sold, or
closed, from the financial year 2009/2010 to the present date?

One

4)    If the figures are held, what was the area covered by children's
play areas that you owned measured by square feet in 2009/10, and on the
most recent date for which figures are available?

In regard to adventure play centres and play areas on housing estates, the
information is not held. In regard to play areas in our parks and open
spaces, the answer is as follows;

265151 ft² approximately for 2009-10

291716 ft² approximately for 2019-20

If you have any queries about this correspondence, please contact me,
quoting the reference number above.

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Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely,

Jackie Jago

Head of Corporate Services

Corporate Services

Directorate of Communities & Environment

Royal Borough of Greenwich

' 020 8921 5044

*   Room 20 Basement The Town Hall, Wellington Street, London SE18 6PW

8 www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk

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