MONEY has been allocated for new play equipment at an Oxford playground after an independent councillor led a campaign for it.
Mick Haines, the independent councillor for Marston, said the city council had agreed that £30,000 would be spent on refurbishing the children’s play area at the Croft Recreation Ground.
The money will also go on improving surfaces and climbing frames.
Work is understood to be starting next month and continuing into October.
Mr Haines said: “I am very pleased that after I have campaigned for a long time for more play apparatus for Croft Recreation Ground, we have been allocated £30,000.”
Mick Haines with the new zip wire installed at the park last year.
He added: “I will continue to fight for more recreation apparatus in our area.
“I would like to thank councillors Linda Smith and Louise Upton for their support in this matter.”
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Ms Smith is the city council’s deputy leader and Dr Upton is the city council’s 'board member for healthy Oxford'.
Mr Haines had campaigned for a zip wire at the recreation ground and was the first person to take a trip on it when it was installed in May 2017.
County council leader Ian Hudspeth celebrated in the same way when a zip wire was installed in Woodstock in September 2014 after Woodstock Town Council paid for it.
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