Youth Hub
Work is underway on the youth hub next to Masterton's skate park. The work site to the north of the skatepark was fenced off from Wednesday 21 August, and work is expected to last a couple of months, weather permitting. The community barbecue will not be accessible during the work.
The project involves repurposing an existing portable building from the library site and the installation of two accessible toilets.
The work is being completed by local contractors who are contributing discounted labour and materials. They are – Waterwise, Festival Hire, Rigg Zschokke, WaiSpark, Silverwood Architects, Wairarapa Treescaping, Harrisons Carpet and Flooring, Loader Construction Engineering, and Green By Nature.
The project has also been supported financially by Trust House.
Project History
Councillors had approved $538,570 for the project as part for the 2021-31 long-term plan, with a $120,000 contribution from the Ministry for Youth Development and Department of Internal Affairs.
Council signed a contract with Podular in 2021 to supply a youth hub building and construction was meant to start in early 2024. Podular went into liquidation in 2022 and the $260K paid is still to be recovered.
We began exploring other options so that we could still deliver a facility at the skatepark using the remaining budget. It was decided that a portacom building - that had previously been used as the Archive’s temporary home, would move from the site next to the library, to the skate park.
