Tararua District Council has agreed to allow an investigation into further utilisation of the Woodville Recreation Reserve.
Late last year Woodville Districts' Vision (WDV) asked Woodville in Focus Inc (WiFi) to investigate the building of a skate park.
At a council workshop on December 11 WiFi presented a proposal for a sport and recreation hub on the Woodville Recreation Reserve, currently used irregularly for rugby and the occasional public event, to greatly expand its brief.
Included in the proposal were a skate park, tennis courts, a basketball court, cricket nets, a traffic park, a water park, new carparking, petanque and chess facilities, a barbecue, toilets and a pedestrian boardwalk from Normanby St.
WiFi prioritised the traffic park, skate park and tennis courts as the heart of the hub and sought permission to seek funding from external funding agencies and the Manawatū-Tararua Highway consortium to undertake community consultation and develop detailed design plans initially before seeking construction funding.