RESIDENTS will have their chance to air their views on plans and shape ideas to improve an adventure playground in York this week.

An open consultation event is being staged to look at how the Bell Farm’s area allocation of the Playbuilder grant can be spent after City of York Council was allocated about £1 million from the national project.

This will develop about 22 play areas across the city, and the Bell Farm playground in Byland Avenue, which has been running for decades and opens after school and during holiday periods, is one of the sites coming under discussion for a possible injection of funding.

Coun Nigel Ayre, the council’s executive member for leisure, said: “The Playbuilder funding gives us a great opportunity to build new play areas and it is important the designs for these new facilities are shaped by the people who are going to use them. It has been targeted to places where facilities were in short supply. I am sure that, once completed, these new play areas will provide the city’s children and young people with some fantastic new places to get outside and really enjoy themselves.”

The consultation, organised by the council and the Bell Farm Adventure Playground Association, runs from noon to 4pm on Wednesday at the park and free refreshments will be provided.