6+ hour, 16+ min ago  (806+ words) Skaters have launched a campaign to save one of London’s only indoor skateparks as it faces sudden closure. Barking Sporthouse announced on Tuesday that it will close its skatepark on August 2 and replace it with padel courts. Eleanor Dunlop, who…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (214+ words) As the films show, it went on to become the “home of British skateboarding”, not simply a place where skating innovations like kickflips could happen — alongside BMXs and rollerskating — but a hub for a community of young people who had…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (790+ words) Kennington Park’s historic skate park has been given a cash injection from Lambeth Council worth more than £500,000 to help bring it back to life and make it safer to use again. The popular 1970s skatebowl, known to many as ‘Kenny’, had…...