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St Anne's Road Pocket Play park, Dublin

St Anne's Road Pocket Play park, Drummcondra Dublin

The small strip of lawn with a tree and 2 benches inspired the local community to redesign it as a community garden so it can function as:

 -outdoor meeting place

- creative play for children

- sensory experience for children

- seating in a planted environment

- wall space for street artists

- biodiversity area and wildlife habitat

- a Drummcondra landmark

 The Community approached DCC and Croke Park for funding and asked Sophie von Maltzan, Landscape Architect and Artist with Fieldwork& Strategies to help them  put a funding application together and if successful develop a design together with the Community.

Funding was given in April 2015.

Community Design participation meetings were held sover 3 month.

The Pocket park was opened in Spring 2016, all play elements where built from a beech tree fallen in a previous winter storm.

It is a proto type experimental play space for Dublin’s Inner City, built from a beech tree fallen in a February storm 

- the playgrounds design is influenced by it’s environment and reacts to it’s settings, it is site- specific

- natural play elements that provide children with physically challenging play opportunities 

- the non- specific elements engage the childrens creativity and sense of adventure

- provide open ended play, encourages self expression and imagination

- the "no boundary fence" policy allows for interaction of peers

- mixture of seating and playing for everyone

- inexpensive and fast to build

- difficult to vandalise as heavy and solid elements which are also easy to replace

- lots of plants

- no concrete or other hard landscaping

Several workshops and maintenance and improvements event have been organised by the Community since then.

To see what the Park looks like now go to: facebook