A long-awaited £102,000 skate park in Bath’s Alice Park is now forecast for completion early in 2019.

B&NES Council papers said a “key success factor” was that it would be ready this September, but the project has been hit by delays and preliminary designs have yet to be signed off.

The authority has allocated £72,000 for the project, with £25,000 set aside for other improvements in Alice Park. The skate park will have an upper age limit of fourten – too young for fifteen-year-old Beinn Wright, whose mother, Joanna, has been campaigning for a skate park since he stood up in a Council meeting, aged nine, asking for one to be built.

She said: “Some people have done their utmost to stop this, but I won’t give up until it is built. I’ve worked hard for it and raised £30,000. My child has been failed, because of a lack of facilities.

“We have an obesity problem in this country, and young men, in particular, suffering from depression. Why aren’t we creating more of these spaces?

“When the skate park is finally completed, my son will be too old to use it. I’m sad for him, but there should still be this facility.” A B&NES Council spokesperson said: “Preliminary designs are currently underway for the park.

“It is anticipated that the skate park will be completed early next year, following a delay while the scope was finalised and agreed before procurement could begin.”

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S. Sumner