© 2008 Save Yeovil Rec
© 2008 Save Yeovil Rec
1 No 66610 HOBC 18 July 2007 at Wyke
2 No 76079 First steam on Swanage Railway since 18 June 1967 on 2 July 2007
1 No 66610 HOBC 18 July 2007 at Wyke
2 No 76079 First steam on Swanage Railway since 18 June 1967 on 2 July 2007
1 No 66610 HOBC 18 July 2007 at Wyke
2 No 76079 First steam on Swanage Railway since 18 June 1967 on 2 July 2007
1 No 66610 HOBC 18 July 2007 at Wyke
2 No 76079 First steam on Swanage Railway since 18 June 1967 on 2 July 2007
1 No 66610 HOBC 18 July 2007 at Wyke
2 No 76079 First steam on Swanage Railway since 18 June 1967 on 2 July 2007
1 No 66610 HOBC 18 July 2007 at Wyke
2 No 76079 First steam on Swanage Railway since 18 June 1967 on 2 July 2007
1 No 66610 HOBC 18 July 2007 at Wyke
2 No 76079 First steam on Swanage Railway since 18 June 1967 on 2 July 2007
1 No 66610 HOBC 18 July 2007 at Wyke
2 No 76079 First steam on Swanage Railway since 18 June 1967 on 2 July 2007
1 No 66610 HOBC 18 July 2007 at Wyke
2 No 76079 First steam on Swanage Railway since 18 June 1967 on 2 July 2007
1 No 66610 HOBC 18 July 2007 at Wyke
2 No 76079 First steam on Swanage Railway since 18 June 1967 on 2 July 2007
Plans for the artificial pitch on Mudford Rec have been approved despite protests over the loss of Public Green Space. The creation of the fenced off, floodlit pitch with a warm up area and terraced spectator seating will result in the loss of a rugby pitch 2 full size adult football pitches and down sizing of the remaining pitches, all clear contraventions of Sports England planning policy on development on existing sports facilities, causing a significant loss of viable pitch space. It could be suggested that SSDC have deliberately mislead Sports England to achieve this in order to provide a dubious requirement for a AGP Hockey Pitch for Yeovil & Sherborne Hockey Club along with Yeovil College.
The council members dismissed arguments at the meeting that the pitch should be locate at a more suitable location.
Cllr Carroll claimed that their estimate cost of £600k had already been secured from the English Hockey Association and Barratt Homes, the latter sec 106 contribution as a condition of planning permission, Cllr Carroll is well versed in twisting the true facts as the actual estimated accurate cost of the project is in excess of £1 million pounds, when challenged on this Steve Joel again denied it. SSDC currently only have an approved budget of £817k for the project. The Hockey Club & Yeovil College being the principal users will provide no funding toward its capital cost. Cllr Carroll again economical with the truth claimed that new development had already taken place on the Rec with the Sport Pavilion & New adventure Play area, nothing could be further from the truth as the football only changing pavilion replaced a thriving community hall. The recent adventure play area mentioned, this again is not a new development it replaced the existing children's play ground.
Cllr Seal claimed the council is planning for the future of its young people, most of those present thought it was destroying land that generations in Yeovil had used and grown up with
Since its conception in the 1930s. Which the vast majority of young people will be denied unless they are members of a club. Like the Athletics track.
Remember Cllr Seal was forced to resign as a Governor of Yeovil College because of her conflict of interest with the Sports Zones being the Councils port folio holder for it, so no doubting where her loyalties lye.
The planning Officer Simon Fox still trying to claim that it is a multi use pitch enabling the council planners to circumnavigate “The No Development” status of the Rec, but its actual construction will be a specialist sand filled hockey pitch, which if used for other sports such as football will quickly destroy it like the pitches at Yeovil Town football club.
Steve Joel came up with the usual dubious figures on increase in population for the next 10 years which is their reason for providing this facility, I am sure most residents would be happier if the council provided actual needed facilities like Schools & Doctors Surgeries to serve the people not vanity projects like this to satisfy personnel egos or perhaps notches on Cvs for the council staff.
The Principal of Yeovil College James Hampton attended as did his entourage to speak
on their quest of their teaching youth. 16 -
No mention of that when they cynically sold off the old grammar school site and its Sports facilities in the 90s which is nearly as big as the Rec green space remaining for housing development, and now they want the Green Space of the other 98% of the community which is ours by right, protected supposedly from this type of development by a “Deed of Trust” and totally ignored by the custodian SSDC.
Other planning issues were also negated or ignored like acoustics, environmental issues, flooding and the night lighting pollution, all being done by in house SSDC technicians with slightly questionable result, one wonders how they would fair if they actually had to produce their evidence in a court of law, where the evidence would be open to aggressive cross examination and it might well not stand up to close scrutiny because of it dubious content.
Then the inevitable vote was cast by the Lib Dem dominated committee to approve it. So once again no surprise a Regulation Committee provided as a guarding, vetting, impartial body but in reality a Lib Dem dominated committee to cynically impose their policy.
What comes next:
The footpath that will blocked by the AGP is to become the latest victim, now that the planning issues are over, to be cynically moved by the in house Rights of Way department at SSDC. Falling to the same procedure as the AGP planning application no doubt. They class this as a routine tiding up exercise “Going through the motions” I believe is the term used by others.
The Town Green has also to be decided before construction will be able to commence.
SDDC may find this a bit of a different challenge to granting in house planning approvals and moving rights of way as they will not have control of its procedures being only an objector.
So their planned start date for construction of Feb 2012 may be a little optimistic.
