Kingston Park Old Posts

24th Feb 09

Check out these Kingston park pictures Bellerby sent over. Toms let his CAD mind run away with him!…

20th Feb 09

Next Kingston Park meeting: 28th February @ 11am

15th Feb 09

Some info from the meeting about the new park on the 24th Jan 09. Click the PDF!

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26th jan 09

Some pics from the weekend at Kingston park.

24th Jan 09

Had another meeting today with council members, charity, youth workers and the guy who project managed the park at Camden (cantelowesskatepark.co.uk). Was good to have an insight of how other parks got developed and built from the ground up. The guy took us through what potentially we had to do to get it running and raise funding, which was helpful. The idea is mainly toward a street course rather then a bowl as bowls normally have one in one out system which sucks. There will be some ramp builder down on Friday to work out the best positions for the ramps, so more designs coming soon.

One of the ideas that was circulating was having a petition so one will be set up at Kingston skatepark in the cafe. So anyone who wants to have a new park get down there and sign the petition! Probably get a online petition going as well so look out for that soon!

14th Jan 09

Next park meeting: Saturday 24th Jan @ 11am

5th Jan 09

Some designs to look over:

23rd Dec 08

At the moment we are at the point where vague plans have been drawn up in order to get rough quotes so we know what sort of money we’re talking about. Right now its looking to e bint he region of £300000. A shit load of money. We’re leaning towards a concrete park as this wont require further money for maintenance to the same degree as a wood park would. Bellerby has been in contact with a few well reputed concrete park builders so hopefully they’ll be helping us draw up some more detailed plans and take things further forward. Meetings are currently taking place every third Saturday at the Café, so if you want your say then come down. Unless your say is shit in which case don’t bother.

6 Comments

ben on January 15th, 2009

look like good plans. on plan a think there should be a quarter/flatbank on the end of the block that faces the jump box, just to give you more options to flow round the park…

James on January 15th, 2009

Yeah good idea. The two designs are the first ones to be drawn up, hopefully talking with a guy on the 24th to go over plan designs. Updated plans soon.

smalze on January 16th, 2009

plans look good
would be sad to see the ol’ skatepark be rebuilt but im sure its for the best. Plan A looks the best but B does have some pretty kl features. just make sure they stick a few rails in there like the stuff there now.

Alex on April 13th, 2009

there should be a box
with a higher bit on it aswell
and obvs some stairs
7 with a handrail

Tim Clark on June 18th, 2009

It looks like the designs are very much geared towards bmxing. Its a shame about no skaters interested in puttng there thoughts forward, but you don’t have to be sarcastic. Also I think it’s only right to consider all types that will use the park

Thanks Tim

dunk on July 29th, 2009

The top designs look mental, aim high though! I would like to point out that the grass is really out of proportion though, so when you get your new ramps, make sure you get the right length grass. Nobody likes big grass.

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