Bath Victoria Park Refurbishment

[Noidear]

The council if offering the opportunity for skaters to give their input to the re-design of the Bath Victoria Park skate park. It's a good opportunity for everyone with an interest in the park to put forward their ideas and wishes, and perhaps to reinforce the wishes for the vert ramp to be retained. Here's the link:

http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/consultations/skate-park-refurbishment-royal-victoria-park

[Lone freestyler]

Thanks for spotting that - it'll give me something to do on the upcoming soaked Saturday.

[surferscoob]

Done!!

[Lone freestyler]

Completed and signed up for further consultation too

[Cookie]

Completed and signed up for further consultation too

Me too

[Ben]

Is the vert ramp still there?

[Lone freestyler]

Is the vert ramp still there?

At the moment, don't count on it being there for much longer though

[Lone freestyler]

Went to the consultation yesterday. Only two bids were received apparently. One basically a street plaza with a mini-spine, the other much more varied, including an 11 foot deep bowl, 6 feet half-pipe, a rather odd looking snake run and some street shit. You can guess which way I voted.

Council guy seemed reasonably knowledgable and an ex-skater to boot. Work supposed to start Nov/Dec and be finished by next Easter.

[Cookie]

Work supposed to start Nov/Dec and be finished by next Easter.

Just right for my comeback

[Noidear]

I was disappointed to be away on holiday when the consultation was held. When will we find out what we are going to get, and how many people attended he meeting?


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[Lone freestyler]

I was disappointed to be away on holiday when the consultation was held. When will we find out what we are going to get, and how many people attended he meeting?


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It wasn't a meeting as such. The plans were on display for a few hours and you could vote for your preference and make any additional comments. Voting seemed to be about 50/50 but there were two other consultations too.

[Lone freestyler]

Work supposed to start Nov/Dec and be finished by next Easter.

Just right for my comeback

Great - I won't be the oldest skater there then

[Cookie]

Work supposed to start Nov/Dec and be finished by next Easter.

Just right for my comeback

Great - I won't be the oldest skater there then

Pah!, bloody kids

[Noidear]

There is also a meeting about the lark hall skatepark on Sunday 31st at 2.00pm to discuss what people want. There is a Facebook group for this - do a search for larkhall skatepark and you should find it. We are lucky to be getting 2 potentially good spots in Bath and the council seem pretty open to ideas. Let's hope they do the right thing


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[Lone freestyler]

Hurrah! Canvas (the interesting design) won the business:

http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Proposal ... story.html

Roll on Easter

[Noidear]

Excellent news. Any ideas on where we can see the full plans? The Canvas website just has a 'watch this space' against Bath Victoria Park.

[Lone freestyler]

I've found this photo on Twitter (I don't think the final design includes a giant hand though):

https://twitter.com/Laceyskate1988/stat ... 2634205184

For scale large bowl is 11 feet.

[Noidear]

That will do nicely I think. It looks like they have tried to incorporate some elements which will satisfy the vert skaters. Can't wait for the spring now.

[ukoldschool]

Just in case you aren't aware, the Canvas designer used to work for Freestyle and is responsible for The Level, XC, Projects Manchester and many others. The Canvas build team (formerly Midas Construction) also used to sub contract for Freestyle and built all of the above, plus more recently Winchester and Haverfordwest for Maverick.

ie - you are in safe hands IMO

[TonyB]

That looks OK.

[Trevenen]

Yep - pretty excited about this myself, do some trips to the area to visit partner's replies, and Bridgewater was a bit of a let down with that waterfall.

[Alf]

Might even get shore leave for this one

time for the nipper to learn to skate

[duck]

Work has begun, apparently!
http://www.nowbath.co.uk/news/work-to-u ... ins-61307/
Pretty excited about this.

"The work has been planned at this time so that it can be completed before the school summer holidays"

[Unciano]

EXCITED

[Noidear]

About time. I was wondering when it was going to start.


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[GarethV]

Can't really see where they are going to put the vert ramp in that design?

[duck]

Can't really see where they are going to put the vert ramp in that design?

It's cunningly hidden, here:

[Lone freestyler]

[Trevenen]

Yep, looks like they are doing a great service to the current users, replicating the ramps they do have in bowl form, including a decent deep end, if that is 11 as I heard first mentioned, then that'll do a good job keeping the vert dogs happy.

Looks even better than the first design, the stuff outside the main bowl looks fun!

[GarethV]

Can't really see where they are going to put the vert ramp in that design?

It's cunningly hidden, here:

HA HA nice work!

[ukoldschool]

now well under construction

[Ben]

Any news on progress?

[Noidear]

I think it's a matter of a few weeks now


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[Unciano]

Are we going to organise some MAS to christen the place then?

[duck]

Saw this photo posted today on twitter:

[LECKY]

Open ready for a raid

[duck]

Open ready for a raid

We got two bath park threads going on here. I think we should stick to one if we ever stand a chance of arranging a jam or meet up. Shall we declare this thread closed and keep all arrangements to the other one? (since it's longer and has more participants already)

official new victoria park bath thread:
middle-age-shred.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=33062