Monday 18th May 6pm - Initial Design Meeting
Meet at the side entrance to Perceval House, Longfield Avenue (just off Uxbridge Road, next to Town Hall). MAP HERE
This meeting is to feed to the council team initial ideas for design parameters. From these ideas an initial, rough 3D model of the park will be created to enable us to present an idea of what the park might look like in location. This will not fix the design, but will be instrumental in beginning the process.
In addition to the consultation committee, there will be two top skate park designers there to guide us: Jeremy Donaldson, who designed Stockwell and Cantelowes; and the main designer for Gravity Skate Parks.
Please, please get down there and try and get as many interested parties along - parents, friends etc. We desperately need in-liners and BMXers, sadly underrepresented at yesterday's meeting.
Also feel free to bring sketches and ideas along!!! The youth rep committee is working on it's own ideas to present. Anyone interested should contact the Chairperson of the Youth Rep Committee, Duncan Brookfield
IT'S OFFICIAL!!! 300,000 ALLOCATED TO WEST EALING SKATE PARK.
The timescale has moved slightly with a potential build not happening until Spring 2010. However, the consultation process has started and the Campaign Committee involved in designing a potential skatepark has begun the process. Please get involved.
If you are interested in being more involved in the design, there will be a consultation committee from the campaign going to meet with council officers and designers. If you want to be part of this committee then please e-mail the campaign: campaign@westealingskatepark.net
GIVE YOUR FEEDBACK !!!!
Please, please, please get your feedback going!! At the bottom of the article in the Ealing Times you can register and link your comments to the article HERE
This is by far the best way to comment as it enables the council to build up a picture of how many people are responding to that particular article.
Alternatively, you can add comment directly through the letters page HERE
DAY TRIP
The campaign took a group of local boarders and bladers to see 3 skate parks, to get inspired and think about what they wanted from a park. In all 3 cases the local council's and police were very enthusiastic about the parks.
CAMPAIGN HISTORY
This campaign was started by Piers Leigh, a local resident who noticed that there are very few facilities for kids between 11 and 18. The Borough of Ealing is well equipped with playgrounds for kids under 11, but really has very few facilities for kids over 11.
When Piers was in Horsham, visiting relatives, he came across a great skate park that the local council had built. It was packed every day and had floodlights which enable it to be used until 11pm at night. It was heavily used, but not just by 11-18 year olds.
Wherever councils have put in this sort of facility they have been a huge success. Ealing Council has chosen to invest £ 200,000 of youth facility funds into a top-of-the-line skate park. However, it’s not just about people between the ages of 11 and 18. Skate parks get used by people of all ages and where they’ve been built it’s often the older heads who’ve been instrumental in getting it up and running.