Plans for Great Missenden skateboard facilities

The councillor gave colleagues a detailed update when the full council met on Monday (Jan 12) at the Memorial Hall, off the Link Road.
Councillors unanimously decided to look into the possibility of whether or not a skateboard ramp would be a feasible idea for the top end of Buryfield near the tennis courts.
The council backed this initiative after Mr Cunnane was supported by chairman Councillor Mike Lee in making the case for Buryfield to be looked at as a prospective site.
Mr Cunnane, 46, a roofer, took up the skateboard campaign after more than 100 youngsters supplied him with a petition which detailed their needs.
He was even more impressed after the young people sadly lost the initial petition but did not give up and created a second petition.
Mr Cunnane supplied colleagues with photographs of a skateboard ramp located in Higginson Park, Marlow, and he suggested that a similar concept could become a reality at Great Missenden.
Mr Cunnane said: "I will get someone out to do a plan on the Buryfield site. This is something that Missenden should be proud of.
"At the moment the Prestwood kids are travelling to Watford so turning up at Missenden would be no trouble at all."
Mr Lee commented that the provision of a skateboard site was doubly relevant now that skateboarding is an official Olympic sport.
Parish council clerk, Jane Duffy, said she believed the cost of the half pipe skateboard and BMX ramp would be in the vicinity of £15,000.
"Hopefully we will be able to get some grants for this from various trusts and I am going to be writing to a number of parties about the idea, " she said.