Concept plan phase: Share your ideas (July– August 2025)
In July and August 2025, we asked you to share your ideas to help us design a concept plan for the Waikanae Park skatepark and play area. You can view this engagement and the ideas board below.
Help us design a concept plan for the Waikanae Park skatepark and play area
Waikanae Park is one of our most popular ‘destination’ parks. This means it has activities and facilities that attract people from all over the region, not just the immediate neighbourhood.
It’s home to several recreational and sporting clubs. It hosts a weekly Saturday market and has a popular playground, skatepark, and pump track. However, the skatepark has now been closed due to safety concerns. As a result, we’ve brought forward plans to rebuild the skatepark in tandem with an upgrade of the playground.
We want to create spaces that are fun, varied and accessible for a wide range of abilities. The skatepark is a major investment so we want it to complement rather than mirror what’s on offer at our Maclean Park Skatepark.
We’re contracting a landscape architect to develop a ‘concept plan’ for the skatepark and playground and we want your input.
Concept planning
A concept plan is for a specific area and outlines what is wanted and where. It considers the best places to site facilities or activities in relation to each other and their surroundings. It considers a community’s vision for how the space will be used and how to get the best use out of the site. It might consider the equipment, plantings, or furniture needed to meet the community’s vision. A ‘concept plan’ sits under the ‘master plan’ - Read the improvements recommended in the master plan for Waikanae Park
Your play, your say | We asked for your feedback
For the skatepark: Whether you’re a skateboarder, or scooter or BMX rider, your voice matters. What should we consider when deciding:
- where the skatepark should go
- what it should include
For the playground: Parents, caregivers, teachers and users:
- what equipment would you like to see
- any thoughts on shade, safety, seating, accessibility, drinking fountains etc
This will help us decide:
- where facilities go in relation to each other
- what spaces are needed to make the whole area fun, enticing, and safer and more usable.
How you could have your say
We opened an ideas board for you to share what inspires you. Ideas could include images or links to other places you like. You could also like and comment directly on each other's ideas.
We also held drop-in sessions and a workshop on our skate park.
Feedback on our proposed concept designs for the playground and skatepark has concluded.
