A half-year search for a Hawke's Bay landowner willing to lease a piece of land for a skid pad appears to have reached a dead end, but Bradley Graham isn't giving up yet.
Graham's submission to the Hastings District council asking for it to consider granting approval for a skid pad was first made last June, with the aim of reducing burnouts on public roads.
He said councillors and police were supportive of his idea, but the struggle to find land had hamstrung the process.
"The progress is pretty much the same as where we were at since my first meeting. They gave us permission if we could find the land, but we just can't find any land to lease," he said.
Although a council spokeswoman said the council has not formally endorsed the idea, councillors Sophie Siers and Peleti Oli have worked with council staff to make a letter of support Bradley could use in approaching landowners to show that the council was willing to work with the landowners to discuss the ways the plan could work.