About playground replacements

When we replace play equipment, we consider available budget, maintenance, how to make the play equipment fun for everyone and comments from our community. Your participation in engagement will help us choose the right play equipment for your neighbourhood.

When we seek playground equipment providers for this project, we will include both rubber and wood safety playground surfacing within the contract. We will ask the companies who bid on the designs to price both and determine how best to proceed with play surfacing once the bids are received.

We typically provide rubber at regional parks and wood safety surfacing in neighbourhood parks. This will be discussed and explored further as we develop the Parks and Recreation Master Plan.

Managing construction costs:

We are excited to put your ideas to good use as we finalize playground designs. In the past few years, moving capital projects forward depends on product availability and inflation that could impact the timeline of work. We will do our best to make sure the work proceeds on schedule. If there are significant changes to the project schedule or we adjust which playgrounds will be replaced this year, we’ll share the news on our website, Facebook and Twitter and email participants subscribed to haveyoursay.guelph.ca.

Playground replacements are something we budget for every year to keep our community safe and healthy. Replacements are planned for playgrounds across the city and scheduled out as each playground reaches the end of its safe-use lifespan.

Annual playground replacements are typically funded through our tax base, and these playgrounds have been approved as part of the 2023 budget process.