Skate Park Project Presentation – 11 th February 2014 Attendees: Bernie Bristow Prevention & Targeted Youth Support Manager, DCS Jackie Cassar Tenancy Team Leader, DHS Alison Dickens Area Regeneration Manager (Woolwich), DRES Robert Goring Assistant Manager – Parks and Open Spaces, DCS&E Peter O’Connell Senior Assistant Director, DCS&E Amy London Performance and Quality Officer/ Project Manager, DCS&E Martin Ryan Head of Street Cleansing and Enforcement, DCS&E Alex Smith Principal Planning Officer, DRES Apologies: Sue Kimmins Leisure Contract Manager, CEx. Gill Cooney Head of Tenancy, DHS Adam Browne Senior Community Safety Officer, DCS&E Pippa Hack Assistant Director of Regeneration, DRES Steve Whiteman Director of Public Health, DAOPS General discussion Peter O’Connell opened the meeting, explaining the background to the project and that the steer on it will come from Members. Alex Smith confirmed that the Berkeley Homes development will be phased and they have indicated they would like to claim the Royal Arsenal Gardens site as early as this autumn. A date hasn’t been agreed but Alex Smith stated that they won’t be able to close the current site until it was clear a new facility would be ready to open. There will be a pressure from Berkeley Homes to expedite this but as there is nothing is in writing at this stage, the scope for flexibility will be good tool for negotiation. Need to consider the installation and monitoring of CCTV at any new site – Amy to look into this. Involve Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) in the project team as they will be able to give a wider view of other leisure facilities in the borough. Amy will pass feedback from this meeting to Sue Kimmins. It is likely that the new byelaw which will ban wheeled sports in many of the borough’s squares will happen before a new facility is open. There is a need manage the skaters carefully and make sure they do not disengage as a stakeholder.
Amy will produce a map that marks out the two-mile radius from Royal Arsenal Gardens and plots out the four suggested sites. The skate park equipment currently on the Connaught estate will not be able to withstand being recycled. Feedback from on each site Site Observations Advantages Disadvantages Barrier Park The Charlton Riverside Masterplan may impact on the use of green space in some of the sites that have been selected. Bids are currently being received and a detailed version of the plan should be available by the end of the calendar year (AD). Maryon Park The anti-social behaviour originates The building of skate park could Cramped site and most isolated. not so much from within the park but add value to planned regeneration, the nearby Morris Walk estate. This particularly if more families will be Location may cause difficulties will improve once the regeneration in moving into the area (AD) during the construction phase – underway (BB & JC). Amy to get advice from Targeted youth service work Transport. carried out in this park (BB). Requires more development and if any on-site facilities were built, this will require more resources (MR). Friends of Park group may object to the appropriation of green
space (RG). Charlton Park This was the least preferred site as far Active civic groups in the area – as Parks are concerned (RG). possibility of more resistance (RG & MR). Historic setting and part of a conservation order (AS). The floodlight track is currently used for football training, so this activity would be displaced if the land was taken (RG). Glyndon estate From informal discussions, some of the Detached youth work takes place skaters have said they would prefer if a here but it is ‘insular’ as an new facility wasn’t on a council estate estate. This may deter young (AL). people from outside the estate (BB). Possibility of ‘territorial conflict’ and maybe even exposure to criminal elements (BB & JC).
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