A MOBILE skate park is due to come to Devizes in the next few months. Organisers of the project have still to finalise a launch date but are hoping it will be around Easter.

Mobile skateboard equipment will tour towns in Kennet and North Wiltshire and will be funded by the district, town councils and the charity Community First.

Youngsters will have to sign up as members and pay to use the equipment when it visits.

The three hour sessions in Devizes are planned for Wednesday nights and Sunday afternoons.

It is almost three years since Devizes lost its skate park in Hillworth Park. A county court judge ordered its removal after agreeing with local resident Bill Richardson that the noise from the equipment was a nuisance.

Since then the town council, which provided the Hillworth Park skate park, has looked at numerous sites for a new skate park.

One such site was the Tom Doyle Memorial Playing Fields in Green Lane, run by the town council, but this was ruled out on the grounds of noise.

The town council has not given up hope of trying to find a site for a permanent skate park.

It has started discussions with Steve Brooks, owner of the soft play centre Coral Cove on the Hopton Industrial Estate, to see if a skate park could be sited there.

Deputy town clerk Simon Fisher said: "Mr Brooks feels he might be able to work with the town council to find a permanent solution. We have met with him and he was happy to pursue a discussion. He is going away to think about conditions he might need."

"There may be a piece of land available at Hopton where our existing skate park equipment could be re-sited, subject to noise agreements.

"Hopton is far from the perfect solution and it is very early days but we are still trying to find a permanent solution."

Mr Fisher said the town council had investigated two other sites but the landowners had refused.

He said: "The landowners were sympathetic but could not give us permission because a skate park would have conflicted with other uses of the land."