Aberavon Sea Front
Neath Port Talbot Borough Council

Designed to compliment the new esplanade development in Aberavon, this project was to refurbish a redundant paddling area and provide a safe water play experience near to the beach.

Belvedere Park, Bexleyheath
Bexley Council

SSP Waterplay delivered their latest water park for Bexley council in summer 2005; the largest of its kind in Europe at 700 sqm, the interactive ‘splash zone’ incorporated a wide range of both in-ground effects and colourful above ground jets, numbering 27 in all.

In addition to designing and installing the complete water play area, SSP were also tasked with providing a kiosk and plant room, the latter housing the latest filtration and recirculation equipment for providing European ‘Blue Flag’ quality bathing water for the hundreds of children enjoying the exciting facilities on offer.

Castle Green, Dundee
Dundee City Council

Another water playground incorporated into an overall park refurbishment, and featuring a small ‘splash pool’, that allows the younger children to play and explore with water in complete safety. Close to the River Tay, this spectacular playground is enjoyed by both locals and visitors alike.

Grays Beach, Thurrock Essex
Thurrock Council

The objective here was to build an interactive water park accessible to children of all abilities, with a full re-circulation package on a green field site. The area was to appeal to age ranges from toddlers through to 12 year olds. The park is a supervised site thus enabling the area to be gated and a charge levied to use the area. This gave the park control over the numbers playing on the park at any one time and a revenue stream to help cover the running costs of the park. The interactive water play area played a key role in helping Grays Beach win a green flag award.

Matlock
Derbyshire Dales District Council

Situated in a mature park, the water play area is integrated into the children’s playground in Halls Ley in the centre of Matlock. It has retained a paddling pool element, combined with multiple in-ground jet effects, including a Water Fence and Baby Long Legs. At just over 100sq m, Matlock is classed as a smaller water park, and has 9 jets in total plus a Sound Stick. The brightly coloured rubberised surface is formed seamlessly with the ‘splash zone’ to provide a fun, safe experience for youngsters as well as older siblings and their carers!

Ridley Park, Blyth
Blyth Valley Borough Council

Part of a larger park re-generation scheme, Ridley Park now features a popular water playground that is designed to attract families with young children. The access to the newly refurbished park has proved extremely popular, and contains one of the new low-depth ‘splash pools’, that combine the fun of traditional paddling pools with the 21st century self-draining technology.

Rugby
Rugby Borough Council

This project is a fully interactive deck-level park that provides a carefully balanced selection of equipment designed to include a quieter play area for toddlers. Larger effects, such as Daddy Long Legs, provide a stimulating and fun environment for the 6-12 year old children.

Ryde Promenade, Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight Council

Designed from a client brief, Ryde ‘Splash Zone’ was created from an old paddling pool. Retaining a wade element, and complemented by the interactive water features from SSP, visitors and residents alike delight in this attractive hybrid setting that retains the best of the old feature whilst introducing 21st century water play to the Isle of Wight.

Sandy Lane, Chester
Chester City Council

Situated close to the river, this park features a cross section of interactive splash features and is run as a single throughput (single use) water playground. The interesting graphics have been faithfully recreated in the wet-pour surfacing, and stimulates children’s imagination

St Johns Recreation Ground, Hedge End, Southampton
Eastleigh Borough Council

The project brief was to provide an interactive water playground with a shallow wade area. A sloping beach was used to connect the wade area and the interactive water play area together. The playground is situated in an open park with free access, so it was important that the area was vandal resistant and safe for children of all abilities, without the need for outside supervision other than parental supervision.

Verulamium Park, St Albans
St. Albans District Council

The first interactive water park to be designed and built in a National Heritage park; the roman site precluded excavation, and so the pipework and fittings were carefully concealed in a raised platform that has been expertly chamfered to enable the water to drain successfully.

Wellingborough
The Borough Council of Wellingborough

Harnessing the water from a bore hole, SSP WaterPlay has provided an innovative water park that utilises U.V. disinfection to ensure the water is safe to use in the park and, as no chemicals are used, clean enough to be discharged straight into a water course. Children here can play in amongst the interesting jets such as Moppet Poppet or Aqua Arch, whilst their older siblings make straight for the Silly Shower, a three-armed water feature that can be programmed, like all the other effects, to suit the bather load and time of day ensuring that water consumption is optimised.