o PLANS for the refurbishment of the Nursery Road Recreation Ground are well underway.

The play area will hopefully be separated into junior and toddler areas with the footpath in between.

Play areas will be surfaced entirely with wet pour rubber safer surfacing if funds allow, otherwise only the minimum areas will be surfaced with wet pour and remaining areas surfaced with tarmac.

In the junior play area there will be an aerial cableway marked on the map as (1), which will be 20 feet long with a platform with a recommended age for its use of eight to 16 years

Then there's a wheelchair swing (2), junior swings (3) and a play unit including four towers, scoop access climber, max log link, mini scoop link, low open slide and high climbing wall (4). There is also a roundabout (5) and benches (6).

In the toddler play area there will be cradle swings (7) around 1.8m high with two seats and a 'bounce about' springy seesaw with steel spring mechanism and polythene board seats (8). The recommended age range is between two years and five years.

Then there's a spring mobile (9) and a play unit (10), which includes five towers, two sets of steps, two slides, bridges and a fireman's pole. The recommended age is from two to five years.

Finally there will be benches (11) integrated into the play area for supervision.

o A PLASTIC green oval garden table was discovered on the Nursery Road Recreation Ground on Saturday, August 10.

It was not there earlier in the day when the park warden carried out her check and there is a strong possibility it may have been stolen.

Roy Garton,Barnton parish clerk, has recovered the table and it is now at his home address.

If anyone has lost such an item it can be collected by ringing 01606 76468.

o THE parish council has received requests for donations from the Samaritans and Childline North West. Both had each been given donations of £35 in 2001.

It was agreed that both organisations be granted a donation of £35.

o THE clerk read out a letter from Hickson Turner Roofing to parish councillors at their last meeting - concerning the repairs to the front and back roof of the Memorial Hall in Lydyett Lane.

The company were prepared to honour the quotes given despite the fact that they were five months old.

Meanwhile the clerk had also requested that while on site they attended to any faulty guttering. This work should be completed imminently.