Burnside Council is wheeling around another thorny and potentially costly issue, writes Mike Smithson, which is destined to anger more ratepayers than it appeases.

It might appear that I have a grudge against the leafy, eastern suburbs municipal body given a past journalistic offering.

But my ongoing argument, also as a ratepayer, is about prudent and timely expenditure.

Yet another community consultation into a bike park, skate park, scooter park or what ever you choose to call a cement structure with steep curved walls, concluded last Friday.

The Wheel Park Feasibility Study was a dot point amongst a list of 15 and could’ve easily been missed if you hadn’t been searching for it.

The feedback findings are likely to be thrashed out at next month’s council meeting, which, from a public viewpoint, could be a 21st century version of “the storming of the Bastille” – well almost.

Opinion is bitterly divided, and there’s no shortage of public participation.

At stake is a small patch of existing reserve and carparking on the corner of Greenhill and Devereux Roads adjacent to cafes and shops.

Linden Avenue Reserve recently housed a skateboarding pump park, also known as a modular pre-cast composite structure, which has visited other public locations in Burnside but has moved on.

Any permanent fixture would have a larger footprint with greater challenges for all participants.

Council appears intent on spending another $40,000 on a feasibility study........

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