Tralee skatepark

wideangle

Does any of the Kerry members have any news regarding the skatepark for Tralee?I believe it was supposed to be indoor but it got changed to outdoor and concrete.It got the most funds from the government,but still no news about it.

lifesgood

:eek: well im not fom kerry but my cousins are nd its supposed to be costing 880,000! by far da dearest in ireland

lifesgood

www.sitedesigngroup.com/streetplaza.php?State=United%20Kingdom .They should be building tralee skatepark click on the brochure and you can fill out a form with da budget nd space ya hav for da park nd dey can email ya back with a design dey do plazas

hoffman

are you sure they are building it? they are in america?
their website needs a zip code when you type in the address and of course that is america only.

lifesgood

no der not actually building it i just ment that they should build it bcoz der parks are amazing would it be possible to get american company to build here? dat wud be gr8

Patricide

The original plan was to have it done by the end of the summer, at this rate i doubt it, they dont even have the park designed yet. On the plus side they have the funds me thinks. Will be outside the tralee leisure centre (sports complex) and it will be concrete.

wideangle

Nice one for the replies.They got the biggest allocation funds wise as it was meant too be indoor,but that has now been scrapped.

Has it gone for tender yet?

The tendering process takes a good few months to award the building of the park too the most suitable builders.Any company can apply for this as long as they supply the required information.

Bushy and Lucan were both built by an American company so I don't see why not.

Patricide

Well i personally see tralee skatepark as being a total waste, the councill made the very few spots tralee had unskateable so in the wait for the park pretty much everyone i know has stopped skating. When the park does open theyl have NOONE local skating it.

I have heard not one word on it just cause the skaters in tralee(well ex skaters now) were never in the loop. I hope it goes ahead though, even though im not meant to skate anymore a local skatepark may give me incentive to screw doctors orders.

lifesgood

it doesnt matter if they stopped skatin bcoz once the park comes up im sure theyl skate it and probably get back into skating

lifesgood

www.concrete-skateparks.com/ - 8k
check out the hasselt park on this site only cost 580,000 imagine if tralee got a replica of this park and with the money they have for the park they could even put an extension at the side or put a shelter over it!!

lifesgood

i emailed them to see if they would build in tralee

Patricide

yea that park looks SAVAGE. If they built somthing half that good id be delighted. There hasnt been no word on the park for at least 9 months at this stage though. i just hope the council havent flip flopped on the idea.

lifesgood

this is the email they sent back to me

Dear Donal,
Thank you for visting our Concrete Website. We are the Concrete Project Office for Western-Europe, including Ireland.
Yes we are interested to built a skatepark in Kerry. We can be of help in designining the park, do the engineering, deliver the prefab concrete skate elements and do the supervision to the local contactor who has to do the groundwork, the installation of the elements and to make the concrete flats.
We have our partners in Ireland who can be of help.
Who are you. A skater or do you work at the local authorities????
Please mail us your name and postal address and we will send you documentation.
Regards,
2MOVE b.v.
Henny Nijenhuis

lifesgood

they actually have people here in irelannd can someone please get on to the kerry coucil to let them know

Patricide

i would but im a bum, somone else go for it though :P

Steoob

how do builders/designers/managers of skate parks make an insurance deal with any company? surely the injuries at concrete skate parks would pile up...

i wouldn't insure a skate park anyway haha

440Hz

Patricide wrote:

Will be outside the tralee leisure centre (sports complex) and it will be concrete.

That is a few houses away from my house. I can't see where there would be the space for this, unless they go out the back and take over the sports field part near the back of the IT. I think there would be much better locations, but I guess anywhere would be better than the steps of the courthouse!

Steoob

440Hz wrote:

That is a few houses away from my house. I can't see where there would be the space for this, unless they go out the back and take over the sports field part near the back of the IT. I think there would be much better locations, but I guess anywhere would be better than the steps of the courthouse!

i think he means the new leisure centre which is being built in fels point

440Hz

Yeah true, I forgot about that! When I read 'sport complex' I just automatically think Oakpark

Patricide

well the original plan was the old complex but its been in development so long i guess theyl move with the new complex. and steoob i would imagine liabilit wavers and some other stuff would be put in place. Skateparks all over the world manage to do it so i gues there is some way around the insurance malarky.

eoinoco

There is something being built in the Green. It could be a skatepark. Its near the playground.

Steoob

eoinoco wrote:

There is something being built in the Green. It could be a skatepark. Its near the playground.

saw that last night... very interesting altogether

wideangle

So what's the story,is there a skatepark built or what?Post up some pictures of it ,whatever it is.
The Co,Cork Ballincollig skatepark which is to be modular should be up and running by the end of September,The Waterford concrete park should be open this side of September.Just filling ye in.

rebelbmx

anyone got news on the tralee skatepark?

wideangle

Can anyone local shed some light on the skatepark for Tralee??

440Hz

Well any time I pass the site that it is rumoured to be on (which is daily) there doesnt seem to be much going on there at all. I heard rumours recently that the site was going to either be on the Dan Spring Rd (by the Aqua Dome) (which might link in with the Green story) or up in Manor, near Toby World. Neither sites look like there is much going on there though, tbh.

Patricide

The plans arent for there last time i heard. It was always meant to be up in the sports complex on the outside.

Blackrocks

hi
just saw ice skt park in tralee yesterday ready to open at weekend at aquadome site. sorry dont have any other info

wideangle

Blackrocks wrote: »

hi
just saw ice skt park in tralee yesterday ready to open at weekend at aquadome site. sorry dont have any other info

^^^^^
That is the Christmas ice rink,this thread is about the permanent skatepark for Tralee that got funding over two years ago!!

wideangle

Anyone have updates..tender awarded to?start date?completion date?:(

cookiequeen

Thanks for the redirection wideangle! As of yesterday I was speaking to the guy dealing with the skatepark. The only place it is going to be is beside the sports complex by the college. They are also looking to build an all weather pitch there but the land belongs to the Department of Education so there is ahold up because the dept of Edu doesn't know if it wants to hand over the land already.
the sum alocated for the Tralee skatepark is €200,000 but the town council is putting some of its money towards it. Plans have been drawn up for an outdoor concrete park but it cannot go to tender until the land is theirs. It went to tender once aleady but the contract was revoked as there was no option to update or add onto the park at a later stage. The guys are trying to do it once and do it right! They got some advice fro Bruce and he helped with the plans I believe. The buck is lying in the dept of educations hands now!!!
Hope that answers all your questions!

wideangle

Nice one for the update cookiequeen,hope things get moving a bit quicker now.I am under the impression the funding for the Tralee skatepark was alot more than 200,000 as it got largest grant in the country.

carchaeologist

I hate to sound negative about this, but are the council really going ahead with the skatepark, good idea that it is,i would think the insurance side of things would put them off it, or am i missing the point?Or would the complex's own insurance cover it?I suppose they have public liability already, maybe it wouldnt make a huge difference to them?

wideangle

Carchaeologist, The insurance problems with skateparks in Ireland has been sorted out,that is why the funding was given for them in the first place.

Some of the skateparks allready built have been incorporated into existing sports grounds,such as Greystones for supervision purposes and some have been built in public parks such as Waterford city skatepark.

carchaeologist

All cool so, i was just wondering:)

wideangle

Not a bother..glad to help.

ducki

to the guy who said no1 wud use the park incase u havnt noticed theres a good few sk8rs round tralee theres atleast 10 of us an thats on a bad day also yestaday we got pics takin by the kerry eye an wer havin an article in the nxt issue about d park:p, also im not spose 2 sk8 nemore either but i stil do

Patricide

Yup noticed the influx of new skaters around the town alright. Im delighted about it, would go back myself but my knee and doctor both say no haha.

Hint....when your learning to drop in on a pipe....wear knee pads...

ducki

:eek:dude that sucks, im not spose 2 sk8 doctors orders 2 but i stil am jst had anoda opp but i jst cudnt c myself not sk8in:D, dis is probs bad advise but u shd try an start sk8in again:)

ducki

:eek:wait a minute u know chris, which means u probs know paul... wait i know who u r woop small world lalalala

Patricide

I know lots and lots of people..... And no going back would be a bad thing. Very bad haha. Although i do miss it(even though i sucked balls haha).

manoverboards

F NE OV u SKT8'z wnt 2 flo it up, da sk8 prk woz part ov da twn dvmnt pln nd da rpd ara dvmnt pln

WOOT lol etc.

http://www.kerrycdb.ie/rapid.asp

Measure FSYP17
Provide more facilities / programmes for young people in all areas.

Actions to Achieve Objectives
More engagement of young people in activities including youth work and sports.

Expected Outcomes
Development of Skatepark for teenagers as per Tralee Town Plan.
Safe tarred play areas with basket ball hoops.
Well lit soccer pitches.

Lead Organisation/Agency
KDYS, Family Resource Centres / Community Centres
Tralee Town Council Public/Private Partnership
TTC / Residents Associations

To Commence
January 2004 onwards

as mentioned here
http://www.kerrycdb.ie/RAPIDActionPlan2003.pdf

It was also mentioned on a town development plan if i remember correct [ cant located it at the moment and partnership Tralee also had something to do with it too

http://www.partnershiptrali.com/images/annual_report/Annual%20Report.pdf

If any skaters want some answers an email to all of the organisation mentioned above will probably get you informed, [ cause i don't think any of them post on here !! ]
;-)

Bugg

Stopped skating 2 years go for various reasons after spending 4 years at it. Remember going to a meeting about building a skatepark in the complex, one guy made it sound like we were definitely getting one while another guy was telling us were weren't going to get it. Good to see its been highlighted again in the paper, I would definitely use it if it were built.

Spent a day at the skatepark in ballincollig a few weeks ago, was a nice park, if tralee is getting a park it will be similar to that park, the design of it was the same as the plans for the tralee park we were shown at that meeting.

wideangle

Up for tender now


http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JUL122517

Patricide

What exactly does tender mean? I doubt wel get a skatepark these days in this economic climate

11811

Patricide wrote: »

What exactly does tender mean? I doubt wel get a skatepark these days in this economic climate

Up for tender is pretty much where the council take various estimates on a project from different developers and choose the one that suits best - like getting a few different quotes done for a job. Typically this only happens when funds are available, altho it can still take a long time to go ahead.

Patricide

Well fair play for the councill for sticking to there word. God damm all that red tape though...

wideangle

There's still something fishy the grant recieved was half a million and it says in the tender details the budget is 150,000, plus that half amillion has been geathering interest for the past four years??

tom the element

the better build dah skatepark there coz i only live in killarney for like 6 days and im already board

tom the element

as u see ducki if u go up to killarney u will never see skater there so

Patato

Has anybody else tried emailing the county council ?