Skate Culture Article #18: Livi Heritage Status...

Popped over to Livi (Livingston Skatepark) for a meeting with some local community workers and someone involved in assigning heritage status to cultural landmarks and buildings.

Livi was originally built on 1981 and has had various extentions and expansions but the original park is showing it's age and there are various opinions around what it's future holds.  It is a bit of a hot potatoe topic in the scottish skate community.

We are currently going though the process of getting it hieritage listing status.  It was quite interesting finding that there are various opinions for different reasons as to why this is a good thing.  There are some who don't want anything to change with it at all and are thinking that this may make it so that exactly that happens.  There are the flip side of that where people are worried that getting this status means it can't be worked on to help get some much needed repair work.

In actual fact it turns out it doesn't mean it can't be worked on it just means that it must be preserved and when work comes to be done on it, it get due care and professional attention.

My ideal would be that it retains it's exact layout and shape, it just gets it's surface brought up to modern standards.

I can never throw up a wee visit to the sacred 'crete without a wee roll around. 

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