Crow Wood Playscape offers in risky, challenging and exciting play for children of all ages, reconnecting children with nature to get them exploring, running, climbing, crawling and sliding again, challenging their boundaries, and getting active and fit in the process.
The design aproach rejected preconceived notions of a playground in favour of a more natural approach to play and a return to simple pleasures, encouraging engagement with natural surroundings and taking acceptable levels of risk.
Davies White worked with local young people in a number of activities such as design workshop sessions, visits to tree nurseries, boulder quarries and other parks to explore what’s already out there. To ensure the long term sustainability the team responsible for the maintenance of the space were also engaged in the early design stages.
Crow Wood Playscape is the first Playscape to be completed within a historic landscape setting. It is now considered the template for play space design within the National Trust.
