PLANS have been submitted to rebuild a skatepark in Tadley in memory of two teenagers who died in a car crash.

Tadley Town Council has sent a planning application for the £150,000 skatepark to Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council after launching a major campaign to raise money for the project earlier this year.

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The new concrete skatepark will be built at the recreation ground in Tadley Common Road and replace an old one which was installed in 2010.

The town council accepted a quote from skatepark company Canvas Spaces earlier this year to build the new facility.

It is planning to take out a public works loan and raise money through grants to fund the new facility.

Tadley Town Council chairperson Avril Burdett said the council will “remain sympathetic to the original” design which was created in memory of two Tadley youths – Jake Burden, 18, and Lee Robinson, 16.

The pair died in August 2007 when the car in which they were travelling crashed at Gales Garage on Aldermaston Road.

The town council plans to speak to the families of the teenagers as part of its consultation, to make sure they are remembered in the new park.

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