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Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Be bold!

The aims and principles that went into developing an innovative children's centre outdoor area are explained to Karen Faux. Photographs by Teri Pengilley at Woodlands Park Nursery.

A verdant rooftop, clearly visible from urban street level, is just one of the innovative features that marks out the Woodlands Park Nursery School and Children's Centre as a place where the outdoors matters.

Its outdoor project has been underway since 2005 and centre head Peter Catling now feels the space is beginning to fulfil its true potential.

Woodlands Park Nursery School and Children's Centre, located in Tottenham, London, began life in 1977 as an early model of an integrated centre. Twenty years later it was given Early Excellence status and in 2000 the local Sure Start programme funded an extension to the front of the site.

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