Completed parks and play areas

Completed Parks

Kettlethorpe Park play area

• completed: February 2026
• what’s new: a multi-play-unit with a slide, ladder and low-level steps. A bee springie and an emoji discus roundabout
• address: Standbridge Cl, Wakefield WF2 7NE
• newly refurbished play area opens in Kettlethorpe

Ferrybridge Play Area

• completed: January 2026
• What's new: New slides and a variety of swings. A roundabout and two climbing towers. A 20m single zipline and flywheel spinner
• address: Ferrybridge Bypass, Knottingley WF11 8QS
• new play area for Ferrybridge children

Valley Gardens (Castleford)

• completed: November 2025
• what's new: Wheelchair-friendly roundabout, transfer-height seesaw, play panels, and a central pathway.  A nest group swing and a four-tower junior multi-play unit. Track ride and cliff rider. New safety surfacing, bins and benches
• address: Lower Oxford St, Castleford WF10 4AQ
• new state-of-the-art play area opens at Valley Gardens in Castleford - Wakefield Council

West End (Hemsworth)

• completed: October 2025
• what's new: New swings, multiple new rotators, a seesaw and a roundabout. A basket seat swing and an accessible springie. A junior multi-play unit with four towers, rock paper scissors and tumble turn play panel. New safety surfacing, bins and benches
• address: West End Park, Hemsworth, WF9 4QY
• work completed on West End Park’s revamped play area - Wakefield Council

Vale Head Park (Hemsworth)

• completed: July 2025
• what's new: A flagpole installation, MUGA Jungle Tower a rope climb and scramble net
• address: Wakefield Road, Pontefract, WF9 5JA
• parks awarded Green Flag status - Wakefield Council
• did you know: Vale Head Park has the prestigious Green Flag status

Coppers Lake Park (Crofton)

• completed: July 2025
• what's new: New footpath installation
• new improvements: type of equipment that’s been installed Accessible features
• address: Crofton, WF4 1PR

Gorton Street (Kinsley)

• completed: May 2025
• what's New: Climbing frames with slides, a seesaw and a carousel-style roundabout, New safety surface, bins, benches and safety gates
• address: Gorton Street, Kinsley, Pontefract, WF9 5
• Gorton Street Park play area improvements complete - Wakefield Council

Dunderdale Recreation Ground (Castleford)

• completed: January 2025
• what's new: New MiniTown Quadrangle multi-play unit, y, an inclusive 4 tower unit which offers 18 play features to children under 5, including a stainless-steel slide, 3 shuffle decks, a ladder, a mini climbing wall, and 4 play panels. New Ladybird Springie, new swing frames and seats, Quad Climber frame, a 4-tower multi-play unit. Wipe Out balance board, Spinning Curlicue, roundabout and a seesaw. New wheelchair-friendly central 1.5m wide pathway. New bins, repainted benches, new play panels and signage and gate
• address: Dunderdale Crescent, Castleford, WF10 2NB

Not every park and play area is a major revamp

We’ve also:

• installed 20 benches in Horbury
• installed a new path and bench at Haw Hill Park
• installed new footpath at The Green Alverthorpe
• added a new gate at Valley Gardens, Castleford
• installed a flagpole at Vale Head Park
• added a new noticeboard at Thornes Park
• installed a new noticeboard at Illingworth Park
• installed a new noticeboard at Carr Lodge Park
• installed a new noticeboard at Horbury Memorial Park
• added new handrails in Friarwood Valley Gardens, and new sensory features funded by Friends of Friarwood Valley Gardens - like two moving bluebell flower sensory play panels and a musical sensory 5 piece Bongo set 
• added new handrails in Queens Park, Castleford
• added benches around the pond at Haw Hill Park, Normanton    
• added a Take a Break - Duck bench at Haw Hill Park, Normanton   
• installed a new Top Trek style pathway to the play area at South Hiendley Common
• installed raised bunding and barrier boulders to South Hiendley Common