But the push may face opposition from lord mayor Gordon Bradbery, who says financing surveillance at the site would be ‘‘premature’’ and ‘‘a knee-jerk reaction’’.

Police received multiple calls to a brawl at the $900,000 Holborn Park plaza on Sunday afternoon, a day after its official opening.

One witness suggested as many as 40 or 50 people were involved in the fighting, which subsided before police arrived.

Cr Crasnich said he believed the extent of the fighting had been overestimated, but he intended to put a report to council seeking costings for installing CCTV at the site nonetheless. He would also propose council set up a liaison with Lake Illawarra police.

‘‘[CCTV at the skate park] was something I wanted initially; now I have every reason to push for it,’’ Cr Crasnich said.

‘‘I’m not going to wait until something worse happens.

‘‘The state government gave us the money to build it, it looks fantastic and I do not want it to be a hub for anti-social behaviour. If we don’t act now, something else could happen.’’

But Cr Bradbery criticised the proposal to install cameras at the plaza based on the lone brawl, which he categorised as a ‘‘tiff’’ that had been ‘‘blown out of proportion’’.

‘‘This is a knee-jerk reaction - I don’t think you can judge its future by a one-off event,’’ he said.

‘‘We need to wait on and see if there’s repetition of such behaviours, and then council would have to look at it in the midst of other priorities for CCTV.

‘‘There are other areas in our city that may require CCTV cameras well before Berkeley skate plaza.’’