Leighland Park Playground Improvements

The City of Burlington is renewing the playground at Leighland Park (1200 Leighland Road) in Spring 2020.

Proposed Improvements

The proposed improvements include:

The replacement of existing playground equipment and swings
The installation of new engineered safety surfacing around the playground and swings
The expansion of playground perimeter and length of asphalt path
Additional seating
Tree planting around playground perimeter.

Since the park amenities are currently closed due to the City of Burlington’s COVID-19 emergency procedures, we ask that you continue to respect the closures for the health and safety of your family and neighbours, city employees and contractors working in the park. If emergency measures are lifted during park construction, the playground area will remain closed and fenced off with signs posted. Thank you in advance for your cooperation during construction.

Love My Playground! Survey – thank you for your input

In 2019, the City conducted a ‘Love My Playground’ survey to get the public's feedback about the types of equipment they'd like to see at local playgrounds when the equipment is replaced in 2020 and 2021. Thank you to everyone who completed the survey, including the many children and caregivers who provided great feedback.

Survey results showed the most desired play equipment features for Leighland Park were:

curved triple slide
metal roller slide (not avail)
standard monkey bars
overhead glider
stepping pods
ground level music panel

Your input inspired the playground designers when deciding which pieces of play equipment to include in your new local playground. Most of the play equipment features identified above from the survey results will be included as part of Leighland Park’s new playground.

View a rendering of the improvements to the Leighland Park playground

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Next Steps

Project Milestone	Timing
Design work	Complete
Tender for a construction contractor	Complete
Burlington City Council approval of 2020 capital budget	Dec. 19, 2019
Construction begins	End of May-beginning June 2020
Completion of construction	August 2020*