YOUTHS looking for a skateboard park in Marlow will be asked directly where they want it built, and how they think it should look, as soon as the autumn.

The latest development comes after a meeting between Marlow Town Council and Wycombe District Council where they agreed a rough location for a new facility.

But the proposal, which is part of wider plans to introduce other skate facilities to The Rye, Wooburn and Stokenchurch, will not be incorporated into the redevelopment of Higginson Park.

Although this goes against what town councillors had hoped for, money left over from the Higginson project could still go towards producing an even better skateboard facility, according to cabinet member for leisure, John Savage.

The town council have so far pledged £2,000 towards the £160,000 skateboard project in the district, but Cllr Savage said he hoped they would contribute more eventually.

He said: "They the town council said they would give us £2,000 towards it, which isn't as much as we would like, but I am very pleased that we have come to an agreement to take this forward.

"We are anxious to get on with it," he added.

The next step will see youths in schools approached to see what kind of facility they would like and where they would like to see it.

Although Lower Pound Lane has been primarily agreed, it is not known where exactly it could lie, and consultation will seek to pinpoint this.

Town councillors were shown several designs for a new facility at the meeting, to give them some idea of what it could mean for Marlow and what it could cost.

But district councillor Maurice Oram, who is also a town councillor, said questions still remained over the access and lighting of the area and whether it was feasible.

He said: "Lighting has not been gone into in any sort of detail. The only costs they have been meeting about is the cost of the skateboard park.

"It is also right out in the middle of the field. Would we expect people in the winter to tread out in a muddy field?"

But Cllr Tony Dunn said the town council believed Lower Pound Lane was an "ideal location".

He said: "It would be accessible and it is well away from anywhere else. It is also an easy place for the police to get a car down there, just to check things are okay."

Cllr Oram said he was pressing the town council to contribute more funds to the project.

Whether they will or will not be decided at a meeting of the Financial Services and Administration Committee.