Open space strategies regulations and play sufficiency assessments regulations - drafts: consultation analysis

Annex B: Children and Young Peoples' Survey Questions

Children (Primary School Age)

3. What are your favourite ways to play?

• Be active: run, jump, slide, swing, ball games, skip, chase.
• Be adventurous: climb, be daring, hang upside down, jump from high up, swing high, walk on logs
• Hang out: meet friends, chat, laugh, shout, sit around (generally hang around).
• Make things: create, draw, paint, build things, make dens
• Use wheels: cycle, scooter, skate, skateboard
• Be quiet: imagine, dream, invent, hide, chill
• Get wet or grubby: paddling, mud, digging, buckets, mixing
• Feel free: get out of the house, express yourself, away from adults, be yourself

4. Do you have places to play in your favourite ways in your local area? Where are they? Are there enough?

5. How do you most often get to the place or places that you play in? By walking, cycling, wheeling etc? Or by bus or car?

6. What are the best things about playing, hanging out and doing hobbies in your local area?

7. What are the worst things about playing, hanging out or doing hobbies in your local area?

8. How often do you play outside? Is it often enough? What stops you playing out more often?

9. If you could wave a magic wand, what more / other / better places would you have to play, hangout or do your hobbies in your local area? What, of these ideas, is the most important – what are our priorities for change?

10. If our local area was suddenly cut off from the rest of the country – by shark infested water, or by natural disaster, what would we do? What do we have already that would help? What would we need to build or make or do together to survive? It can be useful to draw a boundary around a map if you are using one, to show where the border would be.

Young People (Secondary School Age)

3. What spaces are there for play, recreation, informal sports and hanging out where you live?

4. How do you normally get to the places you play in? By walking, cycling, wheeling? Or by bus or car?

5. What are they like, and are there enough?

6. Are some places better to play or hangout in than others?

7. Why are they good / what features do they have (e.g. slopes, plants, trees, water, things to sit on, steps, shelters, wi-fi….)?

8. Why are some places not-so-good, and what would make them better?

9. Do you have the right variety of spaces, places in your local area and activities to take part in?

10. Do you prefer it when all the things you want to do are in one place, or do you prefer a variety of different places, or you don't really mind?

11. Are there things you can't do near where you live, that are important to you?

12. Is it easy for you to get to the open spaces and play areas you want to go? If not, why? Are there other things that put you off going, and what could make it easier?

13. What are the best things about playing or hanging out near where you live?

14. What are the worst things about playing or hanging out near where you live?

15. If you could wave a magic wand, what more / other/ better places would you have near where you live for play, recreation, informal sports and hanging out? What, of these ideas, is the most important – what are our priorities for change?

16. If our local area was suddenly cut off from the rest of the country – by shark infested water, or by natural disaster, what would we do? What do we have already that would help? What would we need to build or make or do together to survive? It can be useful to draw a boundary around a map if you are using one, to show where the border would be.