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Waterland thrives with synthetic grass

One of Western Australia’s best loved outdoor children’s play facilities has been boosted by a makeover from Perth’s synthetic grass specialists, Green Planet Grass.

Maylands Waterland, located on the popular Maylands Peninsula, overlooking the Swan River just 7km from the Perth CBD has long proved popular with children and families.

Acknowledged as the premier outdoor water playground in WA, the City of Bayswater facility is now bursting with colour thanks to the installation managed from start to finish by Green Planet Grass.

The play equipment on site makes Maylands Waterland a perfect setting for kids but the surrounding unattractive black rubber surface has now been replaced with vibrant green synthetic turf, improving the experience for all of the family this summer and for many more years to come.

As with many school and childcare centres, bringing new life to the existing play areas was a challenge for the City of Bayswater but Green Planet Grass provided solutions that encourage children to play. This was achieved through a range of soft polyethylene, hard wearing and long lasting synthetic grasses suitable for playgrounds and other heavily used areas.

Managing Director of Green Planet Grass, Jeff Dennis, said: “Maylands Waterland is set in beautiful wildflower gardens and has four sparkling pools. It’s been a really popular destination for families for many years so bringing a fresh new feel to the children’s playground was a challenge that we relished and the results are really rewarding, having replacing black rubber flooring with Multiplay Plus synthetic grass.

“The Green Planet Grass range of synthetic grass products transforms a wide range of spaces into highly attractive and versatile multisport and play areas. Synthetic grass is particularly attractive around swings and is a soft yet stable option for ball games and high traffic play areas for children of all ages.

“We have an in-house design and installation team to ensure that every aspect of the job, from initial design, through to supply and installation is carried out with the highest attention to detail. The Multiplay range of lawns include many bright colours. So, in addition to the lush green of natural-looking turf, Multiplay comes in different colours that can be incorporated into all manner of activity zones within one area such as running tracks, hop scotch, four square and other games,” Mr Dennis added.

Line markings can also be integrated to allow for sports such as 5-aside soccer, basketball, cricket and tennis to be included in general play areas. Green Planet Grass also recommends the use of rubber shock pads compliant with Australian safety standards to be installed under the grass to minimise the possibility of injuries.

York set for new sports surfaces

Green Planet Grass is pleased to announce that we have been successful in tendering for the Shire of York’s redevelopment of Forrest Oval sports and recreation facility.

Specifically, Green Planet Grass will design and construct eight synthetic grass tennis courts and two synthetic grass bowling greens in the town 100km east of Perth.

Detailed plans for the new facilities have been submitted to the Shire and completion is expected during the early part of 2012.

With numerous synthetic grass sports surfaces already installed for local government authorities from the Mid West to the Great Southern in Western Australia, Green Planet Grass is delighted to be providing this new facility for residents and visitors to York.

More details of this major redevelopment will be provided as work on the facility progresses.

East Fremantle gets new wickets

As the cricket season hots up, East Fremantle is benefiting from sustainable synthetic grass thanks to the installation of a new match cricket wicket at Henry Jeffrey Oval.

East Fremantle cricket wicket Following recent cricket installs for the City of Rockingham and City of Gosnells, among other local councils, Green Planet Grass has now completed the latest sports facility for the Town of East Fremantle.

The wicket was designed and constructed by Green Planet Grass and, like many local government authorities and sports clubs in Western Australia, the Town council will be able to make savings as stringent water restrictions make it increasingly difficult to keep natural lawns and recreational surfaces in good condition. This new match wicket follows the installation of three cricket nets for East Fremantle Cricket Club.

Maintenance and costs in keeping grass green are becoming a growing problem for local government authorities, which is why many have already turned to the major advantages of artificial turf.

Professional accreditation gives commercial and government customers confidence in Green Planet Grass, with a growing reputation for high performance sports surfaces such as cricket wickets, golf, tennis, basketball, netball and soccer grows.

The Town of East Fremantle also recently invested in a synthetic grass interchange area at the nearby oval, which will perform in all weather conditions.

Managing Director of Green Planet Grass, Jeff Dennis said: “While traditional grass cricket wickets and other sports surfaces will fade and suffer deterioration in our hot, dry climate, synthetic grass will stay green all year round – for many years to come.”

Synthetic turf requires no watering and therefore eases the pressure on water resources. Most councils will expect to save thousands of dollars by installing Green Planet Grass sports surfaces or landscaped lawns.