Category: Space to Play

The space to play campaign and multiple use sports facilities

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Campaign East Kilbride East Kirsten Robb Local Space to Play

Greens secure reopening of multi-use games areas after ‘Space to Play’ campaign

Kirsten Robb in goal at Multi Use Games Area next to St Leonard's Primary School

Campaigners are celebrating the re-opening of community facilities, some of which have been closed to the public for many years. In January, Kirsten Robb from the Scottish Greens and The Space to Play campaign wrote to South Lanarkshire Council (SLC) to highlight that in and around one council ward, 4 of the 7 multi-use games…

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Autumn 2021 Campaign East Kilbride East Kirsten Robb Local Newsletter Space to Play

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Hazelhead Park "Wish the park was still here"

Many local people told Green activists that one of their top concerns is a lack of things for young people to do. Since then, local resident and Green campaigner, Kirsten Robb, has been investigating local play spaces and working with the community to get improvements.

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East Kilbride East Space to Play

MUGA update

Kirsten Robb outside locked MUGA

Multi Use Games Areas (MUGAs) and football pitches in schools are fabulous spaces to help increase health, wellbeing and community activity, safely away from traffic hazards. They are meant to be freely available to local communities outwith school hours, but many of these are now locked up. Support our call for South Lanarkshire Council to…