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Conventional transportation was just not possible due to the steep gradients within Crow Wood hence the need for a birdman of the skies to help out! A huge Sikorsky helicopter was the only way these enormous structures could be transported into the playscape.
Sara Burdett, National Trust Project Lead for the Playscape, said: “We brought in the helicopter as it was, literally, the only way to transport four massive pyramid timber towers - which form part of the playscape’s structure - into position in Crow Wood.
The towers are twelve metres high and there were several anxious moments as the helicopter lifted each one, and then flew it with extreme care over the trees and along the estate boundary into Crow Wood.!”
The playscape project has been given a £250,000 grant from WREN, a not for profit business that awards grants to community projects across the UK on behalf of Waste Recycling Group (WRG). The project is being managed by environmental charity Groundwork Cheshire, and the playscape design is by landscape architects Adam White and Andrée Davies.
The Playscape is on schedule to open at the end of July.
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