A bowl, half-pipes, steps, guiding bars, ramps. These are some of the facilities that local lads want in their BMX skate park, when we get it. And by lads, I mean it in the widest, Irish sense, to mean girls too. (So much more fitting for the sporty sk8ers than the other terms such as kids, youth, young people, don't you think?)
Last night was the first get together of the lads since the St Nick's meeting last May, the delay owed in part to Nicky Busbridge having moved out of the area. Local no-nonsense dynamo Steve Liddle (known to many for his gigs at The Bull) has now taken over the project. Matt, Daniel, Kirsty-Ann, Alex, Luke know what they want and what they don't, leaving mums Tarja and Karen Theobald cheering from the sidelines - for now.
Having been warned off the Recreation Ground by local nimby interests, the project may have found a welcome with Barton Rovers Football Club if terms can be agreed. These include that the BMX project use the current car park in return for tarmac'ing a new area where they'd prefer the car park to be sited. Also, that the skate park be fenced in and accessible to members only at a peppercorn fee, to promote a sense of ownership and reduce the chance of vandalism.
This last point was received less than enthusiastically by one of the lads with direct experience of the Croxton Green skate park where, as a result of pressure from local residents, a fence, then a warden, then rules about helmets and restricted opening hours gradually led to its disuse.
What are your views on this? Have you experience of such matters? Do you want to get involved or lend your support, financial or otherwise to this long awaited project?
Please share your views here or e-mail me at janet.nunn@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk so we can make the Barton BMX skate park project happen. Thank you.
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