Skatepark Revived

Skatepark Revived celebrates ROM Skatepark, an iconic at-risk heritage site, through creative commissions and youth engagement. This partnership between Havering London and ROM brings young people into conversation with their local built environment, responding to the borough's Good Life strategy. We will announce the artists and youth cohort working on the project shortly.

The Rom Skatepark, built in 1978 in Hornchurch, is the only Grade II listed skatepark in the world. Given listed status by the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport on the advice of English Heritage, the park is recognised as “nationally important and of special interest."

The 4,000-square-metre park was designed by Adrian Rolt and G-Force, and built by Skate Park Construction a year after the opening of Britain's first commercial skatepark, Skate City, on London's Southbank. The Rom is one of only a handful of surviving parks from this period that retains its original features, which include a field of concrete moguls – bumps in the surface of the park – a half-pipe and a kidney-shaped skating pool.

Rom Skatepark is an at-risk heritage site.

Part of Havering Unearthed. Havering Unearthed is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Historic England, Romford BID, Arts Council England and London Borough of Havering.