Leo Mwape Matongkanshi,14, has encouraged the Palmerston North City Council to consider providing more space for younger skaters. A Palmerston North teenager’s pleas to keep skate park users safe by building a separate area for young children have impressed city councillors. READ MORE:* Safety concerns at skate park prompt call for extension* Feilding skate park behaviour closely monitored* Children feel unsafe at Blenheim's skate park, report saysHe proposed moving younger children, who were at risk of getting in the way of faster skaters, to their own, smaller skate park to make it safer for everyone. Some councillors wanted to have a more modest feasibility study ahead of considering whether to go ahead with a $350,000 to $500,000 project. If the money survived next year’s refinement of the budget, and the feasibility study went ahead and supported a junior park, construction could start in 2022.

Source: Stuff November 26, 2020 04:07 UTC