Your skatepark network is ageing. Your community isn’t.
The Skatepark Blueprint for Councils: A practical framework for audits, engagement, hierarchy and investment staging.
Participation in skating and action sports is rising. Community expectations – around safety, inclusivity, and shared-space design are rising too. But most council skatepark networks are doing the opposite.
Ageing infrastructure, patchwork maintenance, and no coherent investment strategy. The result? Facilities that drift from community assets into council liabilities and a growing gap between what your community needs and what you’re currently able to deliver.
The councils who get ahead of this problem now will be the ones with the evidence, the plans, and the funding to show for it. This webinar shows you how.
What we’ll cover
In 60 minutes, the Outlier Skate team will walk you through a practical, field-tested framework for turning a reactive skatepark network into a defensible, well-sequenced investment pipeline.
1. Audit what you actually have not just what’s on paper
A condition report tells you what’s cracked. An audit tells you what’s actually at risk. We’ll cover what a standards-based skatepark audit looks like, what it surfaces that reactive maintenance misses, and why it’s the non-negotiable starting point before any upgrade or funding conversation.
2. Gather community insight that’s actually decision-ready
Vague feedback doesn’t help anyone design anything. We’ll show you how to capture behaviour-based engagement data, including how different user groups (riders, families, beginners, neurodiverse users) experience the same space differently and how to translate that into inputs your project team can actually build from.
3. Build a network hierarchy that holds up to scrutiny
Not every skatepark in your LGA should be treated equally and treating them as if they are is costing you. We’ll walk through how to categorise your facilities by role, scale and investment priority, so you’re making consistent, defensible decisions across the network rather than responding to whichever suburb is loudest.
4. Stage your investment so it gets approved and funded
Great infrastructure decisions fail at the budget table. We’ll cover how to sequence upgrades in a way that’s financially realistic, grant-ready, and easy to communicate to councillors and the community without overpromising or leaving your long-term asset plan exposed.
Who should attend
This session is built for the people who own the problem and who need the tools to solve it:
- Infrastructure managers and asset teams responsible for recreation facilities
- Open space and parks planners working on upgrade or renewal pipelines
- Capital works and project delivery teams approaching skatepark funding decisions
- Anyone in council who needs to build a business case for skatepark investment
No skateboarding knowledge required. Just a willingness to stop managing skateparks reactively.
Free to attend. Practical from minute one.
Register below to secure your spot. Spaces are limited and we’ll save time at the end for your questions.
Thursday · 7th May 2026 · Virtual (MS Teams) · Free
Hosted by Outlier Skate – specialist skatepark and precinct advisory for Australian councils.