Peel Commissioners is removing the equipment at a local skate park.

A post on social media led to speculation that Peel Commissioners was removing the town’s skate park in favour of a potential commercial project.

Clerk Derek Sewell explained plans to dismantle the facility were in place before the application for a ’pop up hotel’ was submitted.

He said: ’It was planned for removal in 2022. This was prior to that application coming in, so the equipment is being removed anyway.’

Mr Sewell described it as a saline environment and said some of the equipment had been corroded.

He added: ’It’s difficult to use it because of the extremes in wind and weather conditions down there, particularly in the winter and autumn period.

’The commissioners were aware there was a problem with the skate ramps and one of them was already fenced off in autumn 2021 for public safety reasons.

’It’s fair to say that the facilities down there weren’t used heavily in any event.

’The feedback we got in August 2020 from the people who do actually use it said it was old fashioned and it wasn’t a great facility. Not a large amount of people are using the current facility that exists.’

The commissioners plan to look at the provision of skate parks, plus other activities, to see where they can be best facilitated and will ’enter into a public consultation period’.