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# NameComments
1101 Charlotte CracknellWe need football in sussex. How many people sitting on the council are affraid of football? Sod the houses, think of the youths and people of today, where will they go if there is no football
1102 garry barnesWith the 2012 olympics coming to England, we should be promoting facilities like this, not losing them to housing!
1103 Russ PurchaseFootball was originally a game for Joe Public.Now it is all too money oriantated. We need small clubs like Burgess Hill to continue the history of football.
1104 AnonymousHaving lived in Sussex at one time, and played local football there, and helped run a side i know that grass roots football is so important to communities. The shortage and loss of suitable pitches is all important. This situation is being allowed to happen all to often,and must not be allowed to occur.
1105 Tom Wilkinsoni think ppl underestimate the benefits of of a club like this.
1106 AnonymousAbsolute disgrace replacing green field leisure facilities with houses without offering an equivalent or better new facility
1107 joseph
1108 justin hunt
1109 Geprge CarrAnother case of blinkered action by a council. More houses = higher population in the area which will then have one less important amenity. A recipe for increasing boredom and trouble especially among the younger fraternity.
1110 George CarrMore houses = higher population in the area and one less important amenity. A recipe for increased boredom and trouble especially among the younger fraternity.
1111 Chris Bennett
1112 Alex Rush-Fear
1113 Alanah Pople
1114 Jonny Deanhate to see a club go
1115 Lynn StrangeWatched my husband play for Hillians for many years and hope one day to watch my 2 boys play for the club. It would be a shame to take away a wonderful facility, which gives a huge amount of pleasure and ambition to our local youngsters, keeping them off the streets and keeping them fit!
1116 Sarah Coates
1117 Richard StrangeI am an ex player. I grew up at Burgess Hill Town Football Club as my dad was one of a line of secretaries who voluntarily helped run the club in the 1970's. I walked into Leylands Park at the age of 4 when the club moved there and spent my early youth kicking a ball around whilst my dad did all the pre match preperation, marked the pitch, cleaned the changing rooms and ran the bar,etc. I played for Southdown Rovers, Burgess Hill 1st Eleven and Sussex. For the sake of certain individuals who only in this short period have brought the club to this situation, the previous 125 years have seen much hard work get the club to be one of the most prominent in the county. Let's make sure we recognise the history and not ruin what has come before now with a problem that can be rectified in a very short period of time.
1118 James MunnyardFootball is our national game and should be played at all levels
1119 Paul Colohan
1120 Michael Robinson
1121 meg ChittyBurgess Hill have been going for years. Everybody hits a bad patch now and again - but they recover - given the chance!
1122 Andrew PenfoldThere are to many housing estates being built on football pitches in the UK. good luck, I hope your petition is successful.
1123 Sami want to save them because burgess hill rock
1124 Matthew Carpenteri went to watch the hillians play and it was amazing it would be the end of the world if they could't stay!
1125 Dr. Kevin CordesIf the Labour Party are so interested in keeping the British people fit then why allow this act of sporting desecration? Call the application in and stop building houses on sporting facilities. I assume some of the new inhabitants like and play football.
1126 s g wells
1127 Tom BlendellSAVE THIS FOOTBALL CLUB THE COUNCIL ARE DOING THE WRONG THING ! THIS TEAM MAKES THE TOWN KNOWN !!!!
1128 Alan SaddingtonThis Council obviously does not realise how much a local football team means to the community. Look at years gone by when clubs have folded it takes far more effort to resurrect a club than to leave it be. Aldershot is a classic example.
1129 Alan PowellWhat is going on,another club under threat,first Horsham now Burgess Hill when is it going to end,the government want sport for all but we're running out of places to play it,is it going back to the old days when kids played in the street,Mid Sussex council,get your act together and leave football alone!
1130 Tommy Churchyardi think it is mad to stop the great football that happens at leylands park, the msdc have been fine with it for the past 125 YEARS!!! why can't they be fine with it now??? clear up your act council!
1131 Tommy Churchyardi think it is mad to stop the great football that happens at leylands park, the msdc have been fine with it for the past 125 YEARS!!! why can't they be fine with it now??? clear up your act council!
1132 Tommy Churchyardi think it is mad to stop the great football that happens at leylands park, the msdc have been fine with it for the past 125 YEARS!!! why can't they be fine with it now??? clear up your act council!
1133 John Parry
1134 Ian ThompsonI'm sure there are other area's that can be developed. Taking away something that has lasted for 100 + years is irreplaceable.
1135 paulTerrible news do people not know how much effort of unpaid people goes into these small clubs and then just to sell them off. No wonder this country is in the state it is money money great for those that have.
1136 AnonymousTerrible news do people not know how much effort of unpaid people goes into these small clubs and then just to sell them off. No wonder this country is in the state it is money money great for those that have.
1137 CHRISTOPHER SPENCER
1138 Barry AndersonThough (temporarily) exiled in London, I was born and bred near to Burgess Hill and have a great deal of time for what I know to be one of the best-run and most community-minded football clubs in the country. Their achievement in reaching - and surviving at - Ryman League level is hugely creditable and makes this decision by MSDC even more disgraceful. I should like to think, even now, that common sense might prevail and the Council show some respect for its electors and Council Tax payers by withdrawing this extremely unpopular proposal.
1139 Bill RawlinsonThe council should be supporting and protecting local teams. Burgess Hill Town are established and successful and can only bring benefit to the town and to Mid Sussex in general
1140 Helen Christian
1141 Mark Bradley
1142 Douglas MerrickLocal football is the life blood of the community and needs to be preserved - keep football at Leylands Prk.
1143 Karlwe shall not we shall not be moved
1144 Anonymous
1145 Linnie RawlinsonIt's a crazy idea to build on the pitches. Burgess Hill Town FC should be saved, no question. It's what the people of Burgess Hill want.
1146 Alan ConstableWe wish you every success in keeping your ground. Enough have been lost already. Ashford Town (Middx) FC
1147 edward kenny
1148 AnonymousBurgess Hill FC is about cementing the realtionships within the community, and has done since its inception. The so called do gooders called the council have ben quick to attend the club for its freebies and have on many occasions commented on the good work being doen by all at the the club. To build houses on the site then takes away a valuable assett, never to be replaced. A nother classic brain dead moron making decisions without knowledge of the harm that will be done.
1149 Martyn Ellis
1150 Chris HardacreShame on Mid Sussex Disrtict Council for even considering to build houses on a recreational area......................Hands Off Leylands Park.

 

Signatures | Total: 1,309