EN 1176 / 1177 (playground equipment & surfacing)
Standards the work must meet · awarded by BSI · serves: Playground inspectors
- Notices demanding it
- 164
- a floor
- Said “must”
- 42
- explicit obligation
- Open right now
- 3
- Value gated
- £13m
- a floor
Published values on the notices that demand it — a floor, not a total.
The demand curve
Notices demanding it per 10,000 published, by year — rate-normalised so corpus growth never masquerades as demand. Complete years only.
The pale bars are 2025 onward. The Procurement Act went live on 24 February 2025 and changed how notices are written, so the step across that date is partly a change in convention and not only a change in demand. We have not measured how much of it is which, so please do not read this as a trend.
The receipts
Notices that demand it, and the sentence each demand was found in. Nothing is counted here without one.
Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council
All proposed play equipment shall conform to EN1176.
- Rocket Park Refresh Project 2026mandatory
Lytchett Matravers Parish Council
All equipment and surfacing must comply with current relevant British Standards including BS EN 1176 and BS EN 1177.
Norton in Hales Parish Council
All works, equipment and impact absorbing surfacing (IAS) must be manufactured, tested and installed to relevant British and European standards (including BS EN 1176 and BS EN 1177).
Elford Parish Council
9.2 All proprietary play equipment and surfacing shall comply fully with BSEN1176, BSEN1177 and any other relevant play industry safety standards.
Brampton Parish Council
All equipment and installation works shall comply with BS EN 1176 and BS EN 1177 standards.
Wiggenhall St Germans Parish Council
The successful bidder must supply and lay safety surfacing to meet safety standards (BS EN1177).
South Kelsey and Moortown Parish Council
Play equipment must conform to BS EN 1176 and BS EN 1177 or other relevant standard.
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
All equipment and surfacing must conform to EN1176 and EN1177
- The Spinney Common Playground Tendermandatory
Hazlemere Parish Council
The works will include any requirement or appropriate groundworks, and all works materials and parts must comply with the British and European Standards for playground equipment and surfacing BS EN 1176
COLEHILL PARISH COUNCIL
Equipment and installation must be fully compliant to playground standards BSEN1176.
- Playground equipment Folders Meadowmandatory
Burgess Hill Town Council
Equipment and installation must comply with EN1176 and EN957.
- The Supply, Installation and Maintenance of Outdoor Playground Equipment and Play Area Surfacingmandatory
Sefton Council
The works must be carried out to ensure compliance with BS EN 1176 / BS EN 1177 standards for playground equipment and surfacing, and the supplier must have sound knowledge of critical fall height and surface areas for rubberised EPDM wet pour and synthetic surfacing.
See it live
3 open tenders demand EN 1176 / 1177 (playground equipment & surfacing) right now.
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Get set up free →Method: Every count here is a floor. We match the text of the notice, and a notice description is a summary — most tender packs demand things it never mentions.“Said must” counts only explicit obligation language in the matched sentence itself; anything ambiguous is counted as a mention, never as mandatory. Trend compares rates per 10,000 notices per complete calendar year.