Playground investment programme

We maintain 57 playgrounds within parks and open spaces across the borough, as well as other recreational facilities including outdoor gyms, ball courts and sports pitches.

We recognise the importance of having freely accessible facilities for all our residents to enjoy, as well as the wider health and wellbeing benefits they provide. That’s why we work hard to keep these facilities well maintained and updated with new facilities as time goes on.

We are about to begin a series of redevelopments to playgrounds at various sites within the borough that we have recognised as the most in need of improvement. We will also be carrying out additional maintenance across many other playgrounds including surfacing repairs and other repairs to bring play equipment back into use. 

Overall, we will be spending over £600,000 on all of these improvement works, funded predominantly through the our capital programme and a contribution of crowdfunding.

Playground redevelopments

We are holding engagement sessions where you can ask questions and provide feedback. Sessions will be held inside the playgrounds on the following dates:

King George's Field

• Monday 21 October, 2pm to 4pm
• Wednesday 23 October, 2pm to 4pm

Download the King George's Field playground redevelopment design (PDF, 2.7MB). 

Rowdown Fields

• Wednesday 16 October, 3pm to 5pm
• Saturday 19 October, 12 noon to 2pm

Download the Rowdown Fields playground redevelopment design (PDF, 7.1MB).

Shirley Church Recreation

• Monday 21 October, 2pm to 4pm
• Friday 25 October, 2pm to 4pm

Download the Shirley Church playground redevelopment design (PDF, 6.8MB).

Wilford Road Playground

• Tuesday 15 October, 3pm to 5pm
• Saturday 19 October, 12:30pm to 2:30pm

Download the Wilford Road playground redevelopment design (PDF, 5.6MB).

You can email us with enquiries at parks@croydon.gov.uk.

Previous developments

Waddon Ponds playground

Artist's impression of Waddon Ponds playground development (PDF, 300KB)

New playgrounds

The playground sites that will have new playgrounds are listed below. We have also provided links to the web pages for the ‘Friends of’ park groups for the sites where they exist.

• Canterbury Road Playground image (PDF, 2MB)
• Whitehorse Road image (PDF, 2MB)
• Selsdon Road image (PDF, 3MB)
• Addington Park, CR0 5AR
• Ashburton Park, CR0 6NN and Friends of Ashburton Park Facebook page
• Grangewood Park, SE25 6TW and Friends of Grangewood Park Facebook page
• Northborough Road Playground, SW16 4TU
• Northwood Road Playground, CR7 8HU
• Park Hill Playground, CR0 5PB
• Purely Way playing fields
  • Purley Way Playing Fields Plan 1 (PDF, 4MB)
  • Purley Way Playing Fields Plan 2 (PDF, 4MB)
  • Purley Way Playing Fields Plan 3 (PDF, 4MB)