Community Features at Dudley Park

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Consultation has concluded

This consultation is now closed. The Waimakariri Youth Council want to thank you for your feedback and they will be back in touch with you soon about the next steps.

The Waimakariri Youth Council have been given some funding by the Council to look at developing the space around Dudley Skate Park. The aim is to brighten up the space and encourage people to use it more to hang out, put on entertainment and generally have a more community friendly feel about it.

The Youth Council do have some ideas of their own like:

This consultation is now closed. The Waimakariri Youth Council want to thank you for your feedback and they will be back in touch with you soon about the next steps.

The Waimakariri Youth Council have been given some funding by the Council to look at developing the space around Dudley Skate Park. The aim is to brighten up the space and encourage people to use it more to hang out, put on entertainment and generally have a more community friendly feel about it.

The Youth Council do have some ideas of their own like:

  • An entertainment space
  • Seating
  • Charging bench
  • Free wifi

We really do want this to be a community owned project so we need your help - so let us know what you think!

Once we’ve got your feedback, we will work this into some concept ideas and then come back to you to see if we are on the right track.

If this is something you would like to be involved in, please do let us know. It would be great to have people who regularly use the skate park and the area around to work with us to develop an awesome community space. Let us know your thoughts by 20 July 2020.


Consultation has concluded

  • Draft Concept Plan Approved

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    We received some great ideas and feedback from visitors and users of Dudley Park as well as from the wider community during the consultation for Community Features at Dudley Skate Park during July this year.

    Staff took on board this feedback and developed a draft concept plan.

    This plan was presented to the community at the Wai Youth Summer Festival event at Dudley Park on Saturday 11 February 2021. Council staff asked for further feedback on the ideas presented to make sure we were on the right track.

    The Rangiora-Ashley Community Board then approved the draft plan at their meeting on 9 June 2021 and it can be viewed by clicking on the link in the documents section to the right of the page.

    The next steps are to begin development of the area by installing the new features which include:

    • A volleyball area (volleyball was identified during consultation as an activity that could be enjoyed by all family members)
    • Raised decking alongside the skate park
    • Additional seating, including a grassed mound seating area.

    This is a youth-led project proposed by the Waimakariri Youth Council, and is overseen by the Council's Community Team and Greenspace Team.

    The Council have allocated $20,000 towards the project through the Annual Plan process, with the remaining funding to be raised by the Youth Council through fundraising activities.

    The Council will begin installing features from the initial budget, and additional features will be installed over time as funds become available.

    It is hoped that the new features will make the area more inviting for a wider range of users and family groups, no matter what their age.

    We will be carrying out a user survey before the new features are installed, to evaluate how people currently feel about using the area, and what some of the barriers might be if they avoid it. Then a few months after the new features have been in place, we will carry out a second survey to see if people's feelings have changed to help us for future projects like this. We will update this page with the survey later this year.