One area of Wales is launching a scheme to allow residents to close their own streets to traffic to allow children to play safely in the road. The Vale of Glamorgan council is joining the 'Play Streets' initiative running across Wales and England.
Play Streets are neighbour-led temporary road closures to allow children to play outside, on their doorstep. The Vale Play Team have been working with Play Wales and residents to implement the road closures in Barry. Romilly Road and Dunraven Street are the focus of the pilot scheme. Each road will be closed for two hours a month for the next 12 months.
The play streets or playing out sessions were first developed by parents and co-founders of Playing Out on one street in Bristol in 2009 and now has been introduced to hundreds of streets across the UK.
