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Areas: grouping playground equipment by place
When it is worth splitting the grounds into areas, and what that does to an inspection round.
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Short answer
An area is an optional grouping of playground equipment by where it stands — a courtyard, a section of a park, one site in a portfolio. It is not a requirement, but with more than a handful of items it makes both the list and the round easier: you can walk a whole area at once instead of picking equipment one at a time.
How to do it in Lekko
An area is an optional grouping — usually a part of the grounds or a section of the site. You do not have to use areas, but they give you a better overview once you have several pieces of equipment: the list is grouped by area, and you can walk a whole area in one round.
- 1Go to Settings.
- 2Write the name of the area under “Areas” and add it.
- 3When you create or change a piece of equipment, choose the area under “Area”.
Deleting an area keeps the equipment. It only loses its connection to the area.
Background
When the split starts to pay off
With three pieces of equipment in one courtyard, areas are overhead. With twenty pieces across four sites they are the difference between a round you can plan and a list you scroll through. The practical crossover is roughly where one person can no longer inspect everything in one sweep.
A property manager or a municipality with several sites in the same organisation gets the most out of it: the area becomes the address, and the inspection history can be read per place rather than per item.
Lekko builds on EN 1176 and EN 1177. It says that the equipment has been checked against those standards — not that any national requirement has been met. What makes the standard binding is national law, and that differs across the countries this market covers, so we do not claim to know what applies where you are.
Sources
This article gives a practical account of the requirements. It does not reproduce the standards EN 1176 and EN 1177, and it does not replace the annual main inspection by a competent person. If you are unsure what applies to your playground, ask a competent person or the relevant authority in your own country.
Less fuss. Lekko remembers.
Ready-made checklists built from EN 1176 and EN 1177, a reminder before every inspection, and a report you can hand over in one click.