A mobile skateboard ramp could be visiting to a village near you.

Winchester City Council is considering buying a mobile ramp to move around the district.

The aim is to use it to assess demand and gauge disturbance.

A similar scheme has operated in the Test Valley for two years and its success has prompted Winchester MP, Mark Oaten, to lobby the city council to follow suit.

Said Mr Oaten: "After the mobile ramp has moved on, the community often asks for a permanent one.

"It sounds a brilliant scheme for the Winchester district, where permanent skate parks are already very popular."

Cabinet member for leisure, Thrse Evans, is now looking into whether the project is viable.

"We're always interested in good ideas and prepared to investigate and take them onboard.

"I would be totally supportive of the scheme as it's something youngsters want and need."

She added that a permanent ramp installed last year in her own council ward at Wickham was already very popular.

Test Valley paid £12,500 for its mobile ramp and the cost of moving the ramp, averaging £1,500 each time, is shared with the parish councils, with the borough footing the insurance bill.

The ramp stays in each village for about three months.

A permanent ramp has been installed at King's Somborne, near Stockbridge, after the three-month trial, and another may be built at Broughton, also near Stockbridge.