New Design for £90,000 Skate Park

Young people from Honiton have now chosen a second £90,000 design for their skate park at voting events held by East Devon District Council.

A second round of voting was called by the council after the 1st choice company, voted for in December last year, was unable to fulfil their contract.

A significant number of Young people took part in the three voting events to pick another design with 58% picking the new design by skate park design company Maverick.

EDDC will now work with Maverick to get this design installed and opened as early as possible using £90,000 from EDDC’s main budget.

The cocunil say that the funding will go to Honiton skate park as it was judged to be the most in need of improvements in the district with many of the ramps at the very end of their life.

Councillor Iain Chubb, EDDC’s Cabinet Member for Environment, said: “This has been a fantastic opportunity for young people to decide how money is spent on their skate park. I am very pleased that the Council was able to find the money to make the much-needed refurbishments and that we made a commitment to work with the young users it to make it happen.

“Skate parks become a great place for young people to gather and show off their skills. It also appeals to age groups from 4 to 40 so we are pleased to support this great sporting activity!

“Thank you to Honiton Community College and Honiton Young People’s Centre for getting involved. I’m really looking forward to seeing the finished result”.

EDDC worked with members of Honiton Youth Centre and students at Honiton Community College since July 2013 to come up with a design incorporating the improvements that the youngsters want to see at the Allhallows Field skate park.

Top of the shopping list was a concrete skate park with ramps poured on site. They also asked for a half-pipe facing the opposite way to the current one, a quarter pipe linked to the half pipe, a grind rail and a spine.

The young people’s specifications were sent off to several skate park companies, who all came back to EDDC with their interpretations of what the young people asked for. The skate park users got to vote on which one of the designs they want installed.

This new round of voting was to allow the young people to choose between the three remaining designs.