ePetition details
Petition for Skateboard Facility and Pump Track in Oswestry
We the undersigned petition the council to Pass the unused land to the North of Oswestry Leisure Centre to Oswestry Town Council on condition that it is used for a skateboard facility and pump track.
Amenities like this are common in many much smaller settlements around Oswestry and the Town Council has the benefit of a Capital Receipt to fund the construction costs. Young people deserve to enjoy proper exercise facilities in our town and their lack increases the risks to them, and other residents, from anti-social riding and skating in public places.
Being next to the Leisure centre, and adjacent to the urban extension area, this site is ideally located. Indeed Planning permission for this type of use was given in 2008 and amended in 2012. Sixteen years later many young people have now missed out .
Theo who works in a bike shop in town and town Councillor Olly Rose have started this petition because young people in Oswestry have been asking for these facilities for many years, and other smaller towns round Oswestry have now built them. Oswestry Town Council has prioritised this and has the money to build it, Shropshire Council has the land, its time for the two authorities to work together. Our young people deserve it.
This ePetition runs from 03/11/2024 to 07/02/2025.
253 people have signed this ePetition.