Playgrounds

Any parent will tell you it can be a battle to get the kids off the devices and into the outdoors. But for one Wellington family, turning the outdoors into a playful challenge has become something of… Audio

Traffic noise at schools has a detrimental effect on the development and working memory and attention in primary school students, new research out of Barcelona has found. Researcher Maria Foraster led… Audio

Catherine Hamilton was the lead designer of Takaro a Poi - the Margaret Mahy Family Playground in Christchurch. She joins us to talk all things playground! Audio, Gallery

As parliament installs a playground, playgrounds in South Auckland are going to rack and ruin. A listener says South Auckland is being allowed to degenerate into an unsafe place to live as the… Audio

A Christchurch community is crying foul over a proposal to remove its squeaky flying fox, which has generated complaints from neighbours and defied the council's attempts to tone it down. Video, Audio

One of the designers of the Margaret Mahy Playground says the central Christchurch park is attracting all ages. The playground is the biggest in the southern hemisphere. Audio, Gallery

It's a playground with no rules, no parents and a lot of risk. It's called the playborhood, and it's an anti-helicopter parent's plea, to allow kids to take risks without any supervision. Audio