East Suffolk Council
Have your say on East Suffolk play areas
East Suffolk Council is asking the public to share their ideas for three play areas in the district.
Working with town and parish councils in Carlton Colville, Gisleham and Woodbridge, local people and organisations are invited to take part in surveys on behalf of young people or potential users of the sites to help shape ideas for the upgraded play spaces.
Three play areas at Dale End in Gisleham, Newnham Avenue in Woodbridge and Staplehurst in Carlton Colville have been recommended to be improved within the Council’s Play Strategy 2023 – 2027.
The in-depth study assessed current play provision in the district and provided a series of recommendations and identified play areas which could be upgraded and redeveloped to provide modern, high-quality play equipment for local families to enjoy.
Take part in the surveys
Following your feedback, design proposals will be developed by play equipment providers, with the community then consulted again to give views on the designs.
View ideas for play equipment
Explore the different types of play experiences that are available from play companies in our play area consultation presentation.
Take part in the surveys before the closing date of Friday 19 December 2025.
Following the creation of the Play Strategy 2023 – 2027, an in-depth study of current play provision that provided a series of recommendations and identified play areas which could be upgraded and redeveloped to provide modern, high-quality play equipment for local families to enjoy.
The strategy also identifies a small number of areas which are no longer suitable for modern play equipment and as there are other more suitable play areas nearby, the recommendation is that these more limited play spaces are removed. If this should happen, the areas will revert to open space and the local community will be consulted about any future use
For 2024/25 East Suffolk would like to find out the views of the communities in Carlton Colville, Gisleham and Woodbridge.
Beccles, Felixstowe, Framlingham, Kesgrave, Trimley St Mary and Wrentham around the play provision but also around the recommendation for removal including Townlands, Field View Gardens, Glebe View and George Brown Way in Beccles, as well as Nock Gardens in Kesgrave.
If you can spare some time to complete it on behalf of the young people in your family unit and or as a potential user of the site, we would be very grateful. Your views will then form the documents that will go out to play companies to get designs, following the return of the designs we will consult the community again to hear their thoughts on the designs:
Your views will then form the documents that will go out to play companies to get designs, following the return of the designs we will consult the community again to hear their thoughts on the designs.
Please take a look at the play area consultation presentation to get ideas of some of the different types of play experiences are available from the different play companies.