Lachlan asked for a skate park 10 years ago. The council is still arguing about it | michaelkoziol
It has been 10 years since Lachlan Scott and his mother Sarah started a project called Skatercraft to lobby for a skateboarding and recreational facility in eastern Sydney.
But a skate park in eastern Sydney has remained in the too-hard basket. For a decade, the idea has been scratched and exhumed, progressed and halted, in a battle that has involved everyone from activist neighbours to prime ministers. A diagram showing the size and location of the proposed youth recreation area in Rushcutters Bay Park.At a committee meeting last week, Liberal councillor Toni Zeltzer lamented that the kids who asked for the facility 10 years ago “have probably got children of their own now”.tracked down Lachlan Scott, who is about to turn 21 and in the final semester of an economics degree at the University of Technology, Sydney, and his friend George Kinahan, 20, who was also part of Skatercraft.
Over the years, opponents of the ramp have included former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who, while PM and the member for Wentworth in 2017, said skateboarders should go to Bondi Beach instead. The council’s decision to flirt with the skate ramp again has prompted a new wave of community opposition, led by groups such as the Darling Point Society, whose president Charlotte Feldman addressed last Monday’s meeting.
Hanley said eastern suburbs skaters could already access facilities at Bondi, as well as in Redfern, South Eveleigh and Sydney Park within the City of Sydney. She said she would contact individual Greens councillors to ask why they were supporting the proposal despite its alleged heritage and environmental impacts.Greens councillor Nicola Grieve said a lot of misinformation had been circulated about the plan, which was whipping people into “hysteria”.
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