Skateboarding

Freestyle scootering

Freestyle BMX'ing

Physical co-ordination

Meeting new people, developing relationship skills

Taking up a new hobby

Somewhere for dad to take his sons and daughters, to let them have a few tumbles and learn the hard way.

Something for the kids to do after Saturday sports

A foundation for a new local sportsman/woman

The list goes on........

Smoking, drinking, drugs, and tagging go on anywhere, anytime.  Stating that a skatepark is going to promote this is pretty harsh on the kids when its adults that have created this world for them.

If they tag on the bowls.  Then so what? better than your fence? if they start on drugs, then educate them properly, if they start drinking, then stop getting drunk in front of them, if they start smoking, then make them stop.

All that stuff is the norm, and happening in the school playgrounds.  In other words, come up with something better than daily life issues of why there shouldn't be one.

Support the idea, and you will see some happy kids for a change.

Mint.

MC

Well Said MC, im sick of the whole arguement that tagging and alcoholism will get worse! its pathetic. I am glad to see that there is still some intelligence in the community.

Matt