Plans for a new play area with climbing frames, an outdoor kitchen and a play hut have been approved.

New playground equipment is set to be installed at Marsden Primary School after plans were granted by Pendle Borough Council.

There is currently a play area on the premises with a combination of play equipment and soft play areas, however the new plans would see MUGA pitch and fencing, climbing frames and early year’s foundation stage equipment which will include an outdoor timber kitchen, play hut and a freestanding canopy.

A planning document reads: “By providing the proposed development allows the governors of Marsden Community Primary School to improve the outdoor learning experience and abilities offered to all pupils who attend their school.

“In addition, the new equipment will allow learners the opportunity to develop their gross motor skills through the use of the climbing frames.

“Speaking and listening skills will be further developed through the use of the outdoor classroom facilities which will encourage free play as well as directed activities.”

The multi-use games area will be located towards the Percy Street side of the playground and will be surrounded by a tarmac surfacing and fencing. The MUGA would be surrounded by tarmac surfacing.

Adjacent to the games area is a tarmac path leading to one of the gates on Bentley Street and an area of artificial grass.

There will be a climbing frame area which will include a range of play equipment including a wobbly bridge, wobbly planks, low level traverse net, drop rope traverse, spinning log, tyre snake and a central climbing frame shaped like a cobweb.

There will be a scramble net area which comprises a forest play hut, jungle bars, rope traverse and scramble nets which would be surrounded by an artificial grass surface.

There will also be a ride-on vehicle roadway is a surface created from tarmac and block paving. This would not have an above ground structure to it. There would be no impact upon the street scene in relation to this element of the proposals.

Finally, the school will build a "mud kitchen" with an L-shape counter top and a timber structure.

The plans have been approved but the school must abide by a number of conditions.