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Update 8 February 2009

The work is all finished now, including the ramp down to the teen area, and on Saturday morning we added some new heavy duty chain nets to the baskets. These will hopefully improve the experience of users even more.

The Friends are interested in making more improvements to the teen area / skate park area in the future and would like to discuss with users what improvements they would like to see and how they could help. Contact us on 1016 427 4955, or come along to one of our task days on the last Saturday of each month and tell us your ideas.

Update 25 January 2009

With very little fuss the construction of the basketball fence was completed this week. All that remains now is to finish off the access slope down to the Teen Shelter area (see inset photo). This should be done before the end of the month. The fence looks less intrusive than we thought it might and we hope that it will enable to users of the court to enjoy a better game of basketball.

Basketball Court Improvements

We're pleased to announce that work is due to start early in 2009 on the construction of a fence along two sides of the basketball court in the Teen Area of Marple Memorial Park. Users of the area requested the fence in 2007 because it is virtually impossible to hold a full game on the court due to the ball disappearing off down the hillside every time it goes out of play. Since then the Friends group have been working towards achieving this aim. Planning permission was obtained last year and the work will largely be funded from a commuted sum approved by Marple Area Committee in November 2008, with a small shortfall to be made up by the Friends of the Park. Here's a "before" picture and we'll update the web site once the work is underway.