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Why we should close residential roads to allow playtime for kids

Residential roads across the UK are increasingly being closed to traffic for a few hours to creat...

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11.33 14 Jan 2020


Why we should close residential roads to allow playtime for kids


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Residential roads across the UK are increasingly being closed to traffic for a few hours to create play zones for local children.

This is the result of the Playing Out Movement, which has had participation from 30,000 children in Britain over the past ten years.

Alice Ferguson is Co-Founder and Director of Playing out and joins Newstalk Breakfast to discuss the movement


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