The council backed down and withdrew the eviction notice so the pavilion stays in our hands. I spent years playing on those fields and seeing this community space saved means more to me than words can say. We keep watching them to ensure this home stays protected for the next …
May 21, 2014
Final supporters
It
is our belief that the Ken Williams Memorial Pavilion was always intended to be
for the benefit of the sports enthusiasts and associated clubs based in
Hazlemere. Our continued occupation as tenants is now seriously threatened by
the actions of Hazlemere Parish Council, which could result in us being evicted
in Sept 2014 from our natural home for the last 50 years.
If you care about sport in Hazlemere, please read the content below, sign our petition today and tell the council what you think about their actions in the comments section. If you live in Hazlemere, please include your postcode in the comments section.
Our view is that from its inception long before the current Council was involved the Pavilion was intended by the Council as then constituted for the benefit of the community. It was never intended to be a "commercial asset" as the current Council seems to think.
We've made a success of managing the building and have made some profits, mainly through the efforts of a small group of hard working, unpaid volunteers. Our council objects to us making these profits and wants us to give all of these profits we’re supposedly “creaming off” to the council.To achieve their objective to regain possession of the Pavilion they served on us a Section 25 notice that demanded a ridiculous & unaffordable annual commercial rent of £40,500!
However, we’ve always needed to make some profits to maintain and repair the building (we estimate that we need to reserve at least £10,000 per annum for essential repairs to a building that already has numerous defects). We simply cannot afford to pay a commercial rent on top of a repairing lease obligation. The council know that hence why we suspect that there are some councillors whose only objective is to drive us out.
The Parish Council as constituted in 2010 when Hazlemere Sports Association took up occupation of the new Pavilion was able to avoid VAT on the construction costs but only by agreeing with HMRC to enter into a peppercorn rental agreement with Hazlemere Sports Association. The agreement provided by them (requesting a rent of £1.00 per annum only) was duly signed by the Parish Council in October 2010.
Having hired expensive legal advisers, the Parish Council
has found a way to break their 2010 agreement, which they now tell us is not a
valid document from a legal perspective!
Therefore it will not only be economically unviable
for HSA to continue to run the new Pavilion on your and the Parish Council’s
behalf, but it will have serious implications for Hazlemere council tax-payers.
We have been advised that the Parish Council will have to pay HMRC a
significant amount of the VAT saved by the old Council.
Do you agree that the current Parish Council is acting improperly in seeking to break this peppercorn rental agreement by demanding a commercial rent from HSA?
Please let us know by signing our petition that you support our stance that the Sports Association should remain as the sole tenants of the Sports Pavilion at an annual peppercorn rent of £1.00 only in return for the Sports Association running the Council’s Pavilion on its behalf and furnishing the building and accepting responsibility for its maintenance and repair?
This is a free survey and you do not have to make any donation to participate. For more background information, please go to www.hsal.co.uk/pavilion
Hazlemere Sports Association
August 2014 (Updated version)Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
March 2, 2014
March 2, 2014
Watching the total climb toward one thousand signatures gives me hope that we can save the home my teammates and I have utilized for decades. Please send this link to your neighbors right now because we need to hit this milestone before we face the council again.
Reached 100 supporters
January 13, 2014
January 10, 2014
We are just a few signatures away from 100 people telling the council this building belongs to our community. Please post this link to your social media circles so we can hit that goal before the next session.
674 Comments
SL9 8JD The Pavillion is a fantastic facility which is hugely used by those in Hazlemere and in the much wider surrounding community. It specifically provides access to football for all ages. The increase in rent is prohibitive to continuing this. D
Charging commercial rent will result in an increase in charges (either hire charges or drinks prices), less people will use it. Simple. All you'd do here is end up with an empty hall - not making money and not being used by the community for which it is intended.
The proposal of the Parish Council to charge an increased rent on the Hazlemere pavilion is unfair and disgraceful. I strongly oppose it and it is against the wishes of our community. The COuncil should NOT go ahead with this action. - 285 Amersham Rd, HP15 7QA
I live at hp136qw area and attend a Pilates class on a Monday and Thursday morning. It is a superb location and facility and would be a great shame if it was to price itself out of the market snd have to close. It is well run by a very efficient lady.
Honestly disgraceful by the council. I thought there was a national campaign to support grass roots in all sports and not to mention to uphold the legacy & spirt of the London 2012 Olympics. How is this outrageous decision supposed to support that.
A disgraceful misuse of public money and a starting disregard for the wellbeing of the community.
HP15
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The council backed down and withdrew the eviction notice so the pavilion stays in our hands. I spent years playing on those fields and seeing this community space saved means more to me than words can say. We keep watching them to ensure this home stays protected for the next …
May 21, 2014
Final supporters
It
is our belief that the Ken Williams Memorial Pavilion was always intended to be
for the benefit of the sports enthusiasts and associated clubs based in
Hazlemere. Our continued occupation as tenants is now seriously threatened by
the actions of Hazlemere Parish Council, which could result in us being evicted
in Sept 2014 from our natural home for the last 50 years.
If you care about sport in Hazlemere, please read the content below, sign our petition today and tell the council what you think about their actions in the comments section. If you live in Hazlemere, please include your postcode in the comments section.
Our view is that from its inception long before the current Council was involved the Pavilion was intended by the Council as then constituted for the benefit of the community. It was never intended to be a "commercial asset" as the current Council seems to think.
We've made a success of managing the building and have made some profits, mainly through the efforts of a small group of hard working, unpaid volunteers. Our council objects to us making these profits and wants us to give all of these profits we’re supposedly “creaming off” to the council.To achieve their objective to regain possession of the Pavilion they served on us a Section 25 notice that demanded a ridiculous & unaffordable annual commercial rent of £40,500!
However, we’ve always needed to make some profits to maintain and repair the building (we estimate that we need to reserve at least £10,000 per annum for essential repairs to a building that already has numerous defects). We simply cannot afford to pay a commercial rent on top of a repairing lease obligation. The council know that hence why we suspect that there are some councillors whose only objective is to drive us out.
The Parish Council as constituted in 2010 when Hazlemere Sports Association took up occupation of the new Pavilion was able to avoid VAT on the construction costs but only by agreeing with HMRC to enter into a peppercorn rental agreement with Hazlemere Sports Association. The agreement provided by them (requesting a rent of £1.00 per annum only) was duly signed by the Parish Council in October 2010.
Having hired expensive legal advisers, the Parish Council
has found a way to break their 2010 agreement, which they now tell us is not a
valid document from a legal perspective!
Therefore it will not only be economically unviable
for HSA to continue to run the new Pavilion on your and the Parish Council’s
behalf, but it will have serious implications for Hazlemere council tax-payers.
We have been advised that the Parish Council will have to pay HMRC a
significant amount of the VAT saved by the old Council.
Do you agree that the current Parish Council is acting improperly in seeking to break this peppercorn rental agreement by demanding a commercial rent from HSA?
Please let us know by signing our petition that you support our stance that the Sports Association should remain as the sole tenants of the Sports Pavilion at an annual peppercorn rent of £1.00 only in return for the Sports Association running the Council’s Pavilion on its behalf and furnishing the building and accepting responsibility for its maintenance and repair?
This is a free survey and you do not have to make any donation to participate. For more background information, please go to www.hsal.co.uk/pavilion
Hazlemere Sports Association
August 2014 (Updated version)Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
March 2, 2014
March 2, 2014
Watching the total climb toward one thousand signatures gives me hope that we can save the home my teammates and I have utilized for decades. Please send this link to your neighbors right now because we need to hit this milestone before we face the council again.
Reached 100 supporters
January 13, 2014
January 10, 2014
We are just a few signatures away from 100 people telling the council this building belongs to our community. Please post this link to your social media circles so we can hit that goal before the next session.
674 Comments
i am one of the players at htjfc it is a great environment for all of us there and we have a great time, it provides chances for all of us physically mentaly and socialy everyone has great fiends at the club and we wish that we could keep it this way!
SL9 8JD The Pavillion is a fantastic facility which is hugely used by those in Hazlemere and in the much wider surrounding community. It specifically provides access to football for all ages. The increase in rent is prohibitive to continuing this. D
Charging commercial rent will result in an increase in charges (either hire charges or drinks prices), less people will use it. Simple. All you'd do here is end up with an empty hall - not making money and not being used by the community for which it is intended.
The proposal of the Parish Council to charge an increased rent on the Hazlemere pavilion is unfair and disgraceful. I strongly oppose it and it is against the wishes of our community. The COuncil should NOT go ahead with this action. - 285 Amersham Rd, HP15 7QA
I live at hp136qw area and attend a Pilates class on a Monday and Thursday morning. It is a superb location and facility and would be a great shame if it was to price itself out of the market snd have to close. It is well run by a very efficient lady.
Honestly disgraceful by the council. I thought there was a national campaign to support grass roots in all sports and not to mention to uphold the legacy & spirt of the London 2012 Olympics. How is this outrageous decision supposed to support that.
A disgraceful misuse of public money and a starting disregard for the wellbeing of the community.
HP15
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i am one of the players at htjfc it is a great environment for all of us there and we have a great time, it provides chances for all of us physically mentaly and socialy everyone has great fiends at the club and we wish that we could keep it this way!