New skateparks and plazas

Anyone skated the Palace park?

You could do far worse than just make this the standard blueprint for all council parks

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I’ve skated there a couple of times. Its ground is really nice granite slabs and everything seems really solidly built.

I really love the double sided granite slippy curb (I’m old of course I would). My one criticism is that the slappy curb is only a metre and a bit away from the bowl. They could easily have put more space between them.

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The new flo skatepark is nearly complete in the old eagle centre market.

Turns out thr council have just approved plans to redevelop that part of town.

Am I being daft in thinking new Flo will be short lived then?

Planning concent last for 3 years, but they won’t start work until they have enough backing from developers to start work.

All depends if everything is ready to go.

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Apparently they have a 10 year lease in the old market hall.

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Canvas are starting on this on Monday. It’s a 15 min walk from my house. Just a shame it’s in the opposite direction to town/the shop. The current outdoor park we have is literally a 5 min skate away from the shop. Also this was planned way before I opened the shop so I can’t take any credit, someone did come in who works on the council and used to skate and said once he heard about the project he pushed for this design over others. He said if they had got their way we would have just had a concrete circle to round on.

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If only you had some kind of four wheeled toy to get you there.

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State of the pavements round my way I wouldn’t even consider a skateboard as a mode of transport anymore

Voi scoot only :kick_scooter::kick_scooter:

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Looks pretty decent to me, could be better of course but I’d be happy if that was my local.

Mellow transitions :check_mark:
Ledge :check_mark:
Flat rail :check_mark:
Bank to curb :check_mark:

Let us know how things go.