New skate park open

Published on 08 April 2022

The city's new skate park is now open to the public.

In a move that is sure to please the city's youth, Council have removed the protective fencing around the park early to allow it to be used during the school holidays.

Although the park still requires some final aesthetic touches, Council's General Manager, Jay Nankivell, said the time was right to open the facility to users.

"Ideally we'd keep it fenced off a little longer to finish a bit of paving on the park's edge, but we couldn't keep it closed in good conscience with the holidays about to start," said Mr Nankivell.

"We'll have an official ribbon cutting later in the month and look to have a community open day later in the year, but for now it's important we just let people use the facility.

"The feedback we've had around it has been overwhelmingly positive and we're really pleased that people are going to be able to get in there and put it to the test."

Mr Nankivell thanked skate park designers CONVIC, Council staff, and all contractors who had worked over the past four months make the $800,000 skate park a reality.

"CONVIC have a reputation for creating extremely high quality skate parks, and our facility looks like a fine example of their workmanship and design," said Mr Nankivell.

"I'd like to commend everyone who has worked on this project, they've had to contend with everything from storms and floods through to COVID, and still produced a great facility."

Users are however asked to keep off the grass immediately surrounding the facility, and to avoid any fenced off areas on the outer edge of the skate park.

"The grass still needs a bit of time to knit and we do have some small areas that still need some paving work, so we'd just ask users to be mindful of that."

The new Skate Park was built with the support of the NSW Government, who contributed $310,000 through the Stronger Country Communities program.