Stockwell Skatepark

Construction of the park was funded by the Lambeth Borough Council in 1978 and it has been used since then by skateboarders, BMXers, rollerskaters, and assorted other self-propelled wheeled vehicle practitioners.

The park is unsupervised and free to use at all hours, and has remained consistently popular throughout its life, both with locals and with visitors from all over the world.

Users of the park were angry with Lambeth Borough Council for using sub-standard contractors who had no experience in skatepark building.

This was carried out between September 2007 and October 2008, this time with experts involved and assisted by a number of local skaters and BMXers.

In addition to the new surface, a number of new features were also added during the redevelopment, most notably a 6-foot bowl end with coping in the north-east corner of the park, previously an empty space.