Children at Muswell Hill Primary School will soon be able to play a variety of games at break-time after they, along with Muswell Hill Lib Dem Councillor Gail Engert, successfully lobbied Haringey Council for new markings on the playground.

The children alerted Cllr Engert to the problem this month, during one of her regular visits to their School Council. She was told that three months after their playground was resurfaced, they were still waiting for markings to be painted so they could play games like football, netball and hopscotch.

When Cllr Engert wrote to Haringey Council immediately asking for the issue to be addressed earlier this week she received a response explaining that there had been a delay to securing the funding for the markings from the National Lottery.

This was because the Council had to submit one large bid to Lottery funded Big Lottery Fund to cover all projects they wished to be funded. As some were under review it was holding up the delivery of this simple request.

However, the Council accepted that the funding for this project was not in doubt and following pressure from Cllr Engert agreed to paint the markings immediately.

Cllr Engert (Muswell Hill) comments:

“I am delighted for the children that after three months of waiting they are finally going to get the markings for the playground.

“It is essential that the Council does everything possible to assist children in staying active and the Lib Dems will continue to support and lobby for any projects that do this.”