Fair point. The Township Forum seems to be very bad at communicating with the public. I understand that there has been progress with the skatepark, but when I recently emailed a council employee involved in the project for information, I never got a reply.

Part of the problem is that some local councillors and residents continue to be opposed to the skatepark. Also, although young people have been involved with activities at Jubilee Park, they no longer seem to have a pressure group to move things forward.

If any skateboarder wishes to know more about progress with the skatepark then I suggest they email Councillor Nigel Ash (nigelash@blueyonder.co.uk) who is in a position to find out what is happening.

- David -

Town: Ashton

giv up mate the old codgers have got hold of all the places for one now, putting up bench's and building pointless winding paths, pluss if there was one then thay wouldn't be able to moan about kids hanging around the streets would thay. The Youth counsel when i was a teenager used to be run by a great guy called keith, he did everything to get us one, but sadly nothing, this was 7 years ago when i was 16 and if it aint here now id just forget about it.

Town: Ashton

all i ever see getting done in ashton besides making the roads narrow (how annoying is that! it now takes me 20 mins to get from the caledonion to the motorway compared to 5 when it was wide) is benche's and flowers going up things to make it pretty and sod the younger people, just leave them and let them trash the place so we can call them all yobs. Great Idea!!!
I'll go get a big stick to wave at them when thay walk past.

Town: Ashton