After a four-year wait, work on a £150,000 recreational area in Eastburn is set to begin.

Children from Eastburn Junior and Infant School celebrated the imminent arrival of adventure play equipment such as a nest swing and a matrix climbing frame at a turf cutting ceremony.

The nine and ten-year-olds first put forward their playground ideas to Steeton-with-Eastburn Parish Council over three years ago, when they were just six and seven years old.

Parish council clerk Cheryl Brown said since then councillors had worked hard to realise the “dreams and aspirations” of the children and residents, committing over 12 per cent of the precept every year towards the project and employing landscape architects from Bradford Community Environment Project (BCEP). She said: “The scheme is ambitious and exciting, incorporating play equipment that is fun, challenging and inclusive.” Councillor Karen Pickard, who chairs the Eastburn Playing Fields Steering Group, said: “We are really excited. Children and young people will soon have somewhere to go that is safe and fun and will deter them from hanging around outside houses or on streets.”