Skatepark plan change but council stays angry

Plans to build an £85,000 skatepark in Stourport have been scaled down as part of a compromise between the district council and the town council

The district council plans to build a concrete skate and BMX park at Stourport Riverside in the next few weeks.

The move has angered town council members who feared it was in the wrong place and would be a "blot on the landscape."

Councillors say the park would be prone to flooding and have refused to make a contribution towards the costs .

Cabinet member for community and leisure services Nathan Desmond accepted the Riverside was not the ideal location but said there "was no other alternative."

But now the authority has decided to make the park smaller, introduce a 10-metre buffer zone between it and the paddling pool, install CCTV, install three feet tall metal fencing and drop the overall height by 50 per cent.

But the town council dismissed the compromise as a hollow gesture.

The leader of the town council Conservatives, councillor David Little said: "This doesn't impress me one bit.

"There is no compromise because we don't want that carbuncle sited there."