Decision details

Full approval is sought by the Alice Park Trust Sub-Committee to spend the £97k provisionally allocated within the Council’s capital programme to build a skatepark in Alice Park, with any surplus to be put towards wider park improvements.

The Cabinet Member for Development & Neighbourhoods and the Cabinet Member for Finance and Efficiency fully approve the capital budget totalling £97K for the development of a skate park at Alice Park, and for further capital improvements in the park’s facilities if this can be accommodated within the allocated budget.

The funding has been provisionally allocated by the Council for the development of a skate park which is in keeping with the objects of the Trust.  The £97K capital sum has been confirmed as still being available for this purpose by the Cabinet member for Finance and Efficiency following a review of capital budgets in July.  The Alice Park Trust Sub-Committee have requested that if the skate park can be delivered for less than the funding allocated, then the remaining amount be allocated to wider improvements in the park.

Other alternative locations were assessed in the East of Bath, but none considered viable.  To not build the skate park at all, has been considered by the Alice Park Sub-Committee.  Taking into account local views, and having viewed detailed designs the Sub-Committee request that the skate park be built as a valuable asset for the community.