Save our Sports Pavilion in Hazlemere

I fully support HSA in their campaign to manage the KWMP facilty on behalf of the commuity.

HP15 7DW

And supposedly all the political parties want to encourage exercise?

Keep local sport for local people at rates people can afford. Don't kill the club

Farce

Hp157ue

1. The Truth and the Parish Council have completely lost the plot. This Community Facility was funded partly by section 106 monies derived from the sale proceeds of land sold by Bucks C. C. for development, land in which the Parish Council had no beneficial interest. The Parish Council also avoided VAT on the construction costs on the back of an agreement with HMRC that it would grant a lease of the Pavilion to HSA at a peppercorn rent. The purpose of these parliamentary concessions (use of section 106 monies for community facilities and zero-rating for VAT) is to encourage local councils to work in partnership with local organisations like HSA in the construction and subsequent management of community facilities like the new Pavilion the capital cost of which would not otherwise be affordable for the local council and the running costs of which would not otherwise be affordable for the local organisation. The key word is community. The persons to benefit are not just restricted to Hazlemere’s Council-tax payers/residents. The Parish Council holds the pavilion on trust for the wider community namely the sports clubs for whose primary benefit the new Pavilion was built to replace the old one and the many other people (regardless of where they live) who choose to use the Pavilion. 2. The Truth’s suggestion that HSA’s Directors might run off with the profits just because HSA Ltd’s Articles apparently permit them to do so is both insulting to them and absurd. Has he read HSA’s question and answer document on HSA’s website? If not he should do so. If he has read it then he should say whether or not he accepts HSA’s explanation of how the profits are dealt with. If the Parish Council is unhappy with HSA’s Articles it should make a polite request to HSA to amend them not propose ridiculous unacceptable terms as a means of forcing HSA out. 3. Has the Truth read HMRC Notice 708 section 17 and 18? I interpret these sections as meaning that if the Parish Council was to cha

Hazlemere Parish council are not acting in the community's best interests.

I assume that the Truth is the Parish Council’s mouthpiece and is also the mouthpiece of Hazlemere Residents Association (2009) which from its one-sided blogs on its website appears to influence Parish Council policy decisions. From the comments in this e-petition this Residents Association evidently represents only a very small minority of Hazlemere’s residents. There are many holes in the Truth’s assertions. I just mention a few :-

to many clousures already of this sort of place

Local democracy gone mad

I live in Holmer Green. HP15 6RT. I believe that the Council is acting beyond the realms of the Law and if the Agreement is not honoured by the Parish council we should raise funds to fight them in court. I hope they see reason before this time. Best Regards. Guy James

This is outrageous!!!

HP157JJ

Has our Olympic "Legacy" been forgotten already?

This disgraceful situation will affect 90+% of the sports facilities in the area and will even show a lower return to the council unless they have plans for a night-club for example.

The council should be supporting local sports amenities and encouraging enterprise not making it difficult for the next generation!

If the above comment from the so called 'The Truth' was true, why does the parish council want to treble the rent that our bowls club currently pay, thereby forcing up the fees that their members will have to pay should they get away with it? In all likelihood the bowls club would fold in this eventuality.

The parish councils have no respect for work done by volunteers with young children. The money they are demanding is obscene.

Why when government is asking for children to take more exercise do local parish councils want to take amenities away? What reasons do they give?