A £140,000 project to modernise the play area at Highbridge’s Apex Wildlife Park has been delayed until the autumn.
The brand new play area, which is being partly funded by National Lottery money, was due to be completed by the start of the summer holidays, but a shortage of equipment is being blamed for a delay of the project.
“Due to the overwhelming success of playschemes across the country, there has been a national manufacturing shortage of play equipment,” Sedgemoor District Council leader Duncan McGinty wrote on Burnham’s discussion forums on Monday (August 17th).
“Unfortunately, this has had the knock-on effect of delaying the start of the Apex Park play area in Highbridge by three months.”
Burnham-On-Sea.com first reported earlier this year how the play area was set to get a modern new ‘playscape’ thanks to £60,000 of funding from the Big Lottery, a further £73,462 from developer contributions, and £6,538 from the district council. The play area will include new mounds, a new bridge, tunnel, embankment slides, log hide and den, climbing pieces, as well as pod swings.
