WA's bustling port city of Fremantle is changing and in between a swathe of redevelopment stands a persistent, dedicated and vocal group experiencing some mixed results — the skateboarding community.

Their most recent victory came when they warded off a move to destroy the Beach Street location of a much-loved skate park to create parking spaces.

Campaigners who wanted the site saved painted the words "no parking" over the area.

But the success of keeping the local haven was overshadowed by the loss of one of the world's most coveted urban skateboarding locations, situated just across the road at the 1927 Woolstores.

'We see the demand'

The skate park on Beach Street was built in 1999 on land owned by the Public Transport Authority (PTA) and leased to the City of Fremantle.

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