RESIDENTS of the People’s Park area are to ask a parish assembly to overturn a decision to allow a skateboard facility to be built there.

The Constable of St Helier, Simon Crowcroft, has agreed to allow them to seek a rescindment of last week’s vote of 53 to 37 in favour of the project, but he has said that the parties involved cannot wait until their favoured date – 24 May – to try to overturn the vote.

If the residents do take the decision back to the assembly they will in effect be asking parishioners to overturn two parish votes in favour of the skateboard, BMX and roller-blading facility being built there.

The first vote came in November, when an assembly agreed by 50 votes to one to an in-principle proposal to create a skateboard facility on the south-west corner of the park.

Last week promoters of the plan – the Channel Islands Skateboard Association, co-ordinated by Deputy Ben Fox – told the assembly that they needed a portion of the park’s flat land as well as the crescent to make the scheme viable.