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HebPlay Play Sufficiency Assessment

HebPlay Play Sufficiency Assessment - PSA Consultative Draft

PSA - Play Environment in the Outer Hebrides

  • Most formal outdoor play spaces in the Outer Hebrides are attractive sites with landscaping and natural features such as trees, bushes or shrubs.
  • Formal outdoor play spaces in the Outer Hebrides provide welcoming and safe play environments with a variety of general play opportunities.
  • Formal outdoor play spaces in the Outer Hebrides provide a good range of opportunities for physical play, particularly for younger children.
  • Formal outdoor play spaces in the Outer Hebrides offer a range of opportunities for younger children to take risks and experience adventurous play.
  • Formal outdoor play spaces in the Outer Hebrides provide a good range of opportunities for younger children to engage in social play.
  • Formal outdoor play spaces in the Outer Hebrides currently offer good opportunities for creative and imaginative play.
  • Formal outdoor play spaces in the Outer Hebrides provide good opportunities for children to play on or with a range of natural resources within the boundary of the play space (machair dunes; grassland, woodland).
  • Formal outdoor play spaces in the Outer Hebrides offer limited accessible play opportunities for disabled children and families.
  • Some children and families in more remote parts of the islands, without access to a car, have difficulty accessing formal play space. Internal bus services are not regular or frequent enough in certain areas of the Islands to enable frequent access to certain play areas.
  • The Outer Hebrides provides a wealth of informal outdoor play opportunities in a wide range of high quality natural green spaces.
  • In the Outer Hebrides there are abundant opportunities for informal, unstructured play in high quality natural environments, including moorland exploration and orienteering, bog-slogging; den-building; mountain-biking; bird-spotting; climbing; coastal activities include beachcombing; sandcastle building; rock-pooling; paddling, swimming and body boarding (under adult supervision)