A skateboard park is to be built in north Oxford despite worries about it bringing noise and anti-social behaviour.

The city council leisure committee voted to build the skate park at the Aristotle Lane Recreation Ground after public consultation revealed 64 per cent of households within 300 metres of it were in favour.

However, 90 per cent of residents living within 50m of the park were against the proposal.

The committee asked officers to look at redesigning the scheme as a matter of urgency, so the park could face Aristotle Lane, which would mean less disturbance from noise for residents.

It was also decided skateboarders should be asked to observe a "code of practice" designed to stop anti-social behaviour.

Money for the skate park - which will cost between £20,000 and £25,000 - will come from the builders developing the Waterside housing schemex.

Cllr Jean Fooks said many residents were unhappy about the proposals, feeling the park had been "foisted" on them.

One objector, from Kingston Road, who asked not to be named, said: "If children anywhere have anything to do, I would have thought it's in north Oxford. I would have thought the money would be better spent in less privileged areas."

She said residents already suffered from building noise at the Waterside development.

But resident Diana Fynn, whose son Scott, 14, is a skateboarder, spoke in favour of the skate park saying it prevented teenagers becoming "disaffected" at having nothing to do.