Scott Palmer: The council is fully on board with it. And as I say, it’s just everyone trying to make the most of the spaces that we’ve got.

On the upside as well, the council are all for promoting getting the youth, kids, into activities and sports, and they see this just as another outlet for the kids and the youth to get involved with, so the more they encourage skating, the more people are going to actively get involved.

Mike Foreman: For instance, we have a scheme at the park where, if you’re in part-time work or you’re a part-time student, you can get a certain amount of vouchers for free entry to the skatepark. That’s just to get you fitter, to get you out of the house so you’re not just on the X-Box or on the Playstation or whatever it is, to get you active and healthy whilst you’re not in work or in uni.

Having Shop Riot coming to Hull is brilliant; it shows that the facility that is here is up there with The Works or Mount Hawke or any other skatepark of that size. The owner Mark opened his first park 25 years ago, and it came from him wanting to support the local skaters. It was the same thing again when this place reopened, he’s basically got a whole new building next door and built the skatepark just from going on the internet and seeing how popular skating is here in the town at the time, and seeing there was still a need for an indoor skatepark.

As a skater myself it’s amazing to just have you guys skating here tonight, just to have that, then to have the whole Shop Riot event coming up, I’m stoked as a skater and I’m stoked as someone who is a part of the facility. I’m glad when people come to skate here that they’re into what we’ve got to offer.

Scott Palmer: Hull’s got a really rich skate history which possibly people outside of Hull aren’t really aware of. There’s been some really good skateboarders over the years, a lot of people who inspired me, and inspired a lot of people who came up at the same time as me – I’m talking about the generation prior to myself and all my mates – and it’s nice that now with obviously Shop Riot coming here, all the promotion that’s going to bring, we’re going to be in the spotlight, it’s nice for the area to get that acknowledgement. It’s like a nod to all the effort that everybody puts in, and that everybody has put in over the years, just to create the scene that we actually have in Hull, and how good it is.