We mapped 18,000 children’s playgrounds and revealed inequality across England

By Paul Brindley, Senior Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield
Michael Martin, Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning, University of Sheffield

Outside of the home, public playgrounds are the most common places for children to play and the fundamental right of every child to play is even recognised in a UN convention. Despite this, there has been very limited research exploring inequality in the provision of playgrounds.

To help address this, we have analysed data from almost 34,000…

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