Leading
landscape architecture firm, WAX Design, have recently received an award in
the Kidsafe 2012 National Place space Design Awards. The Hazelwood Park play
space project, known as 'Wombat Waterhole', completed in August 2011 was
presented with a ‘highly commended’ award in the category of Public Play spaces
up to $500k. The judging panels comments noted that “This playspace ties
beautifully with the natural landscape by retaining the woodland trees, establishing
garden beds and introducing a dry creek bed” and that the play space demonstrated a “Great range of innovative elements with
graded challenges that will appeal to younger and older children” it was
also noted that the play space incorporated “True
balance of risk benefit with Safety”.