Nuns Way playground

Nuns Way is one of the main playgrounds in the area but it's one we never visit as we've got small children and much of the small children's playground is sand, which isn't suitable to use for much of the year (not to mention unhygienic due to animal poo and rubbish). If you take a small child there they'll want to play in the sand and you have to say no, leaving very little for them to play on. This is one of the larger playgrounds but compared to facilities in local villages it's very poor. It also lacks a defining feature/theme like other parks in Cambridge such as those know as the 'dragon park' and 'pirate park' or the 'fire engine park' in Milton.

We visited today and noticed:

- the weed barrier under the sand is all broken and laying in clumps

-sand is everywhere in the non-sand parts of the playground and on a windy day sand blows in your eyes

- weeds are growing through the rubberised flooring

- - part of the trim trail has been removed

- there is a large piece of equipment in the older children's playground that just has chains hanging where something has broken and hasn't been replaced

- another piece of equipment is so tall my six foot husband struggled to use it

- the metal 'digger' in the sand pit is too heavy and difficult to use for a small child

- gates are missing so there are holes in the fencing

- there is conceptual play equipment in the sand area that my 4 year old son asked 'what do you do with it?'

- the small wooden house in the sand area is rotting

- the small slide is dirty, mossy and covered in graffiti

- the skate park is covered in bad graffiti and would look much better with some decent, artistic graffiti

- when we were there there were two men in the bushes inside the play area. I think they were foraging, but it didn't exactly make me feel comfortable to be there.

In an ideal world I think we'd have playgrounds that are well designed and inspirational, like in Scandinavian countries.