PARENTS who have campaigned for a playground on their estate are hoping their latest suggestion will be successful.

Children on the Aldersbrook estate in Wanstead currently have to play in the street or across a main road, as their playground was condemned more than a decade ago.

But campaigners are pushing for a piece of land behind a garage block in Brading Crescent to be made into a park.

Charity Nunn, 32, who has two children, aged four and nine, is one of the residents campaigning for the park.

The Brading Crescent resident said: “We're not asking for a state-of-the-art playground.

“We just want a little tarmaced area where they can go and skate and a climbing frame.

“The children play out on the street at the moment. Some of the elderly people on the estate don't like that because they make a noise.”

She added that children who wanted to play football were forced to cross the busy Aldersbrook Road to a field because ball games have been banned on the estate.

Past campaigns for a playground have been unsuccessful, with a bid for one near Empress Avenue rejected last year, after residents raised concerns over a potential increase in crime and anti-social behaviour.

But Ms Nunn said the people living near this latest patch of land were mainly young families like hers, rather than elderly people, so she hoped it would be a success.

Although the estate is in Redbridge, Newham Council owns the land it is built on.

Redbridge ward councillor Michelle Dunn said: “The problem is that the land is owned by Newham Council and they are reluctant to release it.

“Until we get Newham Council to agree, we're going to have this ball bounced backwards and forwards.”

She added that there was funding available in the council's budget for the park if Newham gave it the go-ahead.

Residents on the estate have often felt caught between Redbridge and Newham councils, prompting them to form the Aldersbrook Voice group.

Members of the group are also campaigning for something to be done about the piles of rubbish building up on the estate, which the Guardian reported on last week.

The Guardian has asked Newham Council to comment on its plans for the site.