This is like a dream coming true right before our very eyes. LLSB have sat down with the Southbank Centre and negotiated a target cost to restore the original banks and skate-able areas that were once occupied by a Beano store and now builders workshops. Obviously this comes at a whopping cost of £790,000 but is that doable? Anything is possible if we want it bad enough, right?
The other good news from this is that this area will also see the creation of a new space for children and young people to engage in learning and creative activities organised by Southbank Centre.
Hopefully this can be done without monetary assistance from multi-national corperations that have bulldozed skateboarding’s rich history in the last decade. With that huge task in mind, how can we raise over three quarters of a million pounds to restore the space where most of us carved out our first kick-turns? This part of the Southbank has not been skated since 2004 so there will be thousands of skaters hungry to see this new move happen. Please spread the word by sharing this and let’s get some ideas started.
Please send us your ideas too, here. We will return to this with some deeper thoughts once we have some time to digest the news as this is fresh off the bat, but congrats to the LLSB who certainly don’t give up the chase but have joined forces with those at the Southbank Centre to agree to this potential new project. They now need your support and that starts here at their donation URL: llsbdonate.com
To whet your appetite, here’s a tasty edit of a line through SB history with London Posse on the mic.