![]() It's almost as if it'd been put in the too-hard basket." John was particularly disappointed the council rejected the board's request to have the Spacenet opened during the community's Christmas Gala. We've had to wait all this time for them to put in this permanent solution. "There are all sorts of things they could have done to try to get the thing open. Community Board chair John Gillon is happy the Spacenet is open again but is unimpressed with how long it took and the lack of temporary solutions. After months of the futuristic jungle gym being enclosed in a steel-fence fortress, the community board and council found a solution - a board-funded $35,000 footpath and a council-funded $20,000 drainage system. The cautious and careful council considered it remained a danger and the fences stayed up. But, in a twist of fate, it became too dry. The council decided the soggy ground was too dangerous. A few weeks later North Shore City Council fenced it off as a safety measure after a child slipped next to it and fell into mud. Glenfield Community Board decided to buy the German-built Spacenet in October 2008 and had it installed the following April. It was only last Thursday that the security fences came down. Catherine doesn't understand why the children's play area needed to be closed for so long and why something wasn't done to open it sooner. His mum Catherine takes him to Marlborough Park, home to the Spacenet, at least three times a week. After months of looking through a wall of hire fences at the pyramid-shaped web of ropes, Keding is stoked to test his climbing skills on the semi-new playground feature. Now, after a long year of safety-conscious closure, Glenfield's $52,000 Spacenet is ready to be climbed and conquered by the 4-year-old.
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