Tairua Pauanui Community Board Chairman Bob Renton says no one wants it built on their back doorstep.
He says: "we had 120 thousand dollars to actually construct it, unfortunately, the community is extremely divided over where it will go or what will be done and at that stage we just couldn't find a suitable site in Tairua that the community would sign off on."
The money was put towards another community recreational facility instead.
Skater Beni Coleman says currently they set up makeshift ramps on quieter streets - but that causes problems when cars come along and they have to move the ramps off the street and get out of the way.
"We've been skating up and down the streets, like, that's all we really do because we can't really go anywhere else, there's no skatepark."
There is a skate park that some of the bigger kids use - but it is old and run down.
Samuel Kinzett says it's not really suitable for his BMX bike.
"There's a crack in the half pipe, there's copings not right, nails are sticking out, there's rust everywhere you look, there's weeds overgrowing through the cracks. Yeah super rough concrete, stone, sand - all the things that are wrong for a skate park really."
If a skate park was built in Tairua long-time skateboarder Brad Turner says it would keep kids safe and off the streets and be a confidence booster for some kids who not academically minded.
"They could be outstanding skaters, scooter users or bikers and they could progress that and go and enter competitions and put little Tairua on the map."
The group is investigating ten possible sites for the skatepark - but such is the sensitivity of the issue - they won't say publicly where those sites are.
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