Maclean Park refresh - have we got it right?
Consultation on the concept design for the Maclean Park skatepark is open
Our vision for Maclean Park is a destination for all; a place to meet, play, relax and connect with Kāpiti Island, our heritage and environment.
We’re delivering Stage 2 of the Maclean Park development plan [PDF 1.08 MB].
This $2.34 million project includes upgrading our much-loved skatepark and over the past few months we’ve gathered lots of input about what's important to you for the upgrade.
From April to August 2022 we ran a survey, ideas board and community consultation sessions to gather ideas for the skatepark from the community. The results of the survey are available to view in the Documents section.
Specialist skatepark designers RICH Landscapes have developed a concept design based on ideas we've heard from the community and through workshops with users. Some ideas we haven't been able to include in this design (such as a full pump track and wooden half-pipe), and we'll carry these ideas into future skatepark upgrades elsewhere in the district - Waikanae skatepark will be next in a couple of years.
The Stage 2 upgrade of Maclean Park also includes building a new fully accessible amenity block with more toilets and new showers and preparing the ground for a future older persons’ recreation areas and water plaza.
How to have your say
Have a look through the draft concept design [PDF 21MB].
Provide your feedback through:
- The online ideas boards
- Overall design
- Bowl
- Streetscape
- Mini-ramp - Visit us at the Maclean Park skatepark on Saturday 10 December to talk about your ideas and ask questions of Council staff.
- Or Email us your feedback.
Overall design

Bowl
Streetscape
Mini-ramp
Consultation on the concept design for the Maclean Park skatepark is open
Our vision for Maclean Park is a destination for all; a place to meet, play, relax and connect with Kāpiti Island, our heritage and environment.
We’re delivering Stage 2 of the Maclean Park development plan [PDF 1.08 MB].
This $2.34 million project includes upgrading our much-loved skatepark and over the past few months we’ve gathered lots of input about what's important to you for the upgrade.
From April to August 2022 we ran a survey, ideas board and community consultation sessions to gather ideas for the skatepark from the community. The results of the survey are available to view in the Documents section.
Specialist skatepark designers RICH Landscapes have developed a concept design based on ideas we've heard from the community and through workshops with users. Some ideas we haven't been able to include in this design (such as a full pump track and wooden half-pipe), and we'll carry these ideas into future skatepark upgrades elsewhere in the district - Waikanae skatepark will be next in a couple of years.
The Stage 2 upgrade of Maclean Park also includes building a new fully accessible amenity block with more toilets and new showers and preparing the ground for a future older persons’ recreation areas and water plaza.
How to have your say
Have a look through the draft concept design [PDF 21MB].
Provide your feedback through:
- The online ideas boards
- Overall design
- Bowl
- Streetscape
- Mini-ramp - Visit us at the Maclean Park skatepark on Saturday 10 December to talk about your ideas and ask questions of Council staff.
- Or Email us your feedback.
Overall design

Bowl
Streetscape
Mini-ramp
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Have your say on the overall design
2 months agoThe layout allows for as many people to use the park at once by using distinct zones - a bowl, a mini-ramp, a street plaza and jump-box, resurfaced heritage banks, and learner areas at the northern and southern ends. We've also included more shelter and opportunities for artwork. The colours are intended to highlight the transitions and give the impression of wet and dry sand.
Tell us your thoughts about the overall design and check out the detailed features on the other ideas boards. How would you see it being used? Is there anything we haven't considered?
Add your idea
steakncheeseabout 2 months agoLooks like a lot of collisions waiting to happen
+1 Idea number 3's comment on poor design from Rich - they've already butchered the last three park builds in the region. Skateparks cost a lot to do up and they're only redone every few decades so it would make a lot of sense to spend lots of time getting a final design right before investing in something solid. Ideally, a whole park is cohesive with all parts visible - we see this in long, flowy lines in open spaces filmed overseas whereas I find the skating the recent Rich builds here are conducive to collisions, even with competent skaters around. Features also poorly placed. What might initially be considered safe separations of space can tend to be blind spots/encourages crowding which is a massive safety issue. Bowl looks way too similar to Maidstone and they messed up the extension on that - sad to see the only smaller transitions in confined spaces instead of adding to the flow of the park
1 comment0Idea number 3about 2 months agoThe park is not big enough and there is too much transition obstacles (ramps, bowls)
Skateparks in NZ have historically been designed far too small and often leave out basic obstacles like ledges and flat bars. There have been many parks designed and built in MZ recently which is great, however they generally all have a gigantic bowl which in my 25 years of skateboarding, often get left untouched. The park design should get rid of the bowl and replace it with more street obstacles such as ledges, stairs, rails, flat bars, manual pads and banks. If you are going to spend money on a skatepark, please do it right. Rich landscapes has a reputation of building massive bowls and then designing street elements as an after thought. This approach is a massive waste of money. I have had numerous conversations with skateboarders and skate shop owners who all agree. A good skatepark should flow from obstacle to obstacle and this design doesnt look like there is much flow. Talk to the wellington skateboarding association and get pro skateboarder Kevin Francis involved please
0 comment1Ants Kabout 2 months agoLove this layout. I would only note if there is good shading for the parents sitting around the Park? especially when parks packed.
As it gets crazy hot in summer. A few canvas sails would be great situated around the sides of park. As doesn’t look enough when theirs multiple family’s and groups.
1 comment0Concerned about size of Parkabout 2 months agoFootprint is too large
The design encroaches into green space in the park which is used for gatherings and small events. How will this be mitigated by other areas and then connected to the current pathways.
2 comments0rad dadabout 2 months agoStoked
I am impressed by the design and the changes are much more substantial than I imagined. I think the team are doing a great job. One main thing that I would get rid of is the spine in the mini ramp section. I find spines cut down on the fun of the ramp and don't really get used enough to justify building them. Also would love to see a slightly more sessionable bank to ledge feature in the street section or maybe a slappy curb thrown in there maybe on the eastern section. Overall, pretty stoked on the design. Great job Rich Landscapes and KCDC!
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Have your say on the new bowl
2 months agoA new flow bowl has been designed with pool coping at the deep end, a flat bank section, and parallel transitions that can be used as a half-pipe.
Tell us your thoughts about the new bowl.
Cam75about 2 months agoKidney bowl
Overall the design looks really good. I'm just concerned that the bowl is not a kidney shaped bowl. As a skateboarder, It looks like it would be difficult do get back and forth momentum on.
1 comment0Coachabout 2 months agoHaving raised sections of the bowl stops flow. It is far better to have it sloping or a waterfall. Careful consideration to coping detail...
No raised sections, steepness & coping detail is important. Above is what I would choose, the current design looks like a version of upper hutts flow bowl.
1 comment0NomDabout 2 months agoFlow
I love a bowl I can carve for days. I can't see an obvious line in the bowl to keep up momentum (roller skater). Probably just needs trial and error. But I hope flow has been a consideration.
0 comment1Macs1 day agoRolling entry
For some of our kids, it is intimidating to drop in the bowl although they have the ability to carve it. Addin a rolling entry will drastically increase the number of potential users of this great feature of the skate park!
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Have your say on the street section
2 months agoThe proposed street section includes plaza-style features, a variety of rails, ledges and gaps, and a new central ledge. We're proposing to retain most of the heritage banks and resurface them in smooth concrete with additional features. We've also designed a jump-box and fly-out feature based on feedback from scooter users.
Tell us what you think of the street features and the banks. Is there anything we haven't considered?
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Have your say on the mini-ramp
2 months agoJackie15 days agoSpine
It will be good to keep the size of the spine the same as the current one. The one for example at Newlands park is too steep. The current spine at the Paraparaumu park works really well and it is probably one of the best spines to learn on.
0 comment0NomDabout 2 months agoMini ramp for teaching
One thing I'm always looking for as a feature at skateparks is a ramp with a low enough coping for teaching beginner agressive roller skaters to drop in, stall, and jump out. Most minis in the region are slightly too high for beginners so I'm really hoping this mini is at a good beginner height. To spread the joy of skating skate parks we need some features to not be intimidating. I hope this ramp will be inviting for newbies.
0 comment0therussabout 2 months agoProvision of a 2m+ wide, 35deg+ banked section along northern length, on NE corner.
Skaters naturally seek out streetscapes to adapt their skills to, such as stairs, rails and banks. The addition of a banked section to the mini ramp to its NE end would be an amazing way to push riders' runs to new limits such that traditional ramp based tricks (rocks, grinds and smaller arials) are augmented with new and old skool street skating moves such as flips and no-complys, while remaining in a ramp context.
0 comment0Swiftyabout 2 months agoBeginniramp
Great to have a small miniramp in the region, and a little spine is a bonus. Nearest spines are Maidstone - which transitions from the bowl to the street section in a way that's hard to utilise, Newlands, which has a higher facing transition and Waitarere has a wee plastic one.
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If you would like to put forward any ideas for consideration, please email one of the contacts on this page.
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1 comment1Swifty8 months agoHave a plan for ongoing revision and maintenance. When parks aren't fit to skate is when people use them for other, less social, purposes
1 comment1Swifty8 months agoMacLean park has the potential to be a destination for the region. It would be great to have something to rival/surpas Feilding or Marton
0 comment1Pramskater8 months agonew street section
A new street section would good for people to learn on. it could have banks hubbas rails euro gap or china gap
0 comment2Swifty8 months agoLighting - helps extend skating hours in winter months and you can choose to avoid crowds by going late
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Skatepark timeline
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Maclean Park Development Plan 2017
Maclean Park refresh - have we got it right? has finished this stageFollowing community consultation, the staged development plan for Maclean Park was approved in 2017.
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Long Term Plan consultation 2021
Maclean Park refresh - have we got it right? has finished this stageBudget for the Stage 2 Refresh was included in Council's 2021-41 Long Term Plan, consulted on in early 2021.
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Early engagement (April – August 2022)
Maclean Park refresh - have we got it right? has finished this stageIntroducing the project and talking to key stakeholders and the community about their aspirations for the upgraded skatepark.
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Concept design (August – October 2022)
Maclean Park refresh - have we got it right? has finished this stageSpecialist skatepark designers RICH Landscapes will produce a 2D layout and concept design based on input from the early engagement with the community.
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Further engagement (December 2022 - January 2023)
Maclean Park refresh - have we got it right? is currently at this stageWe will seek further feedback from the community on the concept design. The design will be available on our website and we’ll hold a public feedback session at the skatepark on 10 December and in late January.
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Detailed design (February – June 2023)
this is an upcoming stage for Maclean Park refresh - have we got it right?RICH Landscapes will complete the final designs for the upgraded skatepark.
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Preparation for construction late 2023
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Construction (early 2024)
this is an upcoming stage for Maclean Park refresh - have we got it right?Construction of the new upgraded skatepark. Please note the skatepark will need to be fenced off and can’t be used during this period.
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Skatepark reopening June 2024 (target date)
this is an upcoming stage for Maclean Park refresh - have we got it right?
Important Links
Documents
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Maclean Park Skatepark Redevelopment - Concept.pdf (21.2 MB) (pdf)
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Maclean Park Skatepark Redevelopment - Concept (3D images only).pdf (8.05 MB) (pdf)
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Skatepark Survey Response Summary - 15 Aug 2022 (208 KB) (pdf)
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Maclean Park Management Plan 2017 (2.4 MB) (pdf)
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Maclean Park overall development plan 2017 (1.08 MB) (pdf)
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Stage 1 community feedback summary - Feb 2017 (2.85 MB) (pdf)
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Stage 2 community feedback summary - Jul 2017 (1.05 MB) (pdf)
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Maclean Park Development Concepts Portfolio (April 2017) (5.45 MB) (pdf)