Cheadle Skate Park
As part of a National Lottery Community Funded project called MYVoice young people in Cheadle expressed their need for an improved skate park. Sporting Communities facilitated conversations between local young people and Staffordshire Moorlands District Council to explore the development of a skate park on Tean Road Recreational Ground. Using our mobile unit, young people from Cheadle were able to feed back on the proposed designs and work with the designers to create a skate park that met the needs of young people within Cheadle and the surrounding areas.
Unfortunately the skate park plans fell through, however due to working through the process with the local young people, tensions around the project not developing were reduced and the young people involved still felt that it had been a positive experience. The development of a Cheadle Youth Voice Group was therefore formed.
Fortunately, plans to develop the skate park were revived and young people from our developed youth voice group came out to continue developing the plans along with their skating, blading and biking peers. This allowed them to input into the new designs with greater experience.
Fortunately, plans to develop the skate park were revived and young people from our developed youth voice group came out to continue developing the plans along with their skating, blading and biking peers. This allowed them to input into the new designs with greater experience and encourage the skate park to be inclusive to future users.
The skate park is now used by both local people and others who come from far and wide to experience Cheadle’s skate park. Additional youth voice investment has also come from Outside Arts and Cheadle Arts Festival, who have renovated the look of the skate park with young people.