Plans for a new £650,000 skate park in Cranleigh are approved by Waverley Borough Council.

A version of this article appears in print on July 13, 2025, Section AR, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Tony Hawk Hits the Skate Park Early.

The private skate park had been open for 11 years prior to that. In the 1990s, Riley Brookshire — owner of High Wheels Skate Park — and other advocates pushed for a city skate park in Decatur.