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Save Shenfield Cricket Club

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Mike Harvey
8 years ago

I remember watching the cricket 66 years ago and have been to party's at the club house.

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Adam Felgate
8 years ago

Save our club!

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Ian George
8 years ago

I played with Shenfield CC from 1975 to 1979 before returning to my home in Australia. I was not only impressed with the zeal with which every member of the club approached their cricket but also the managing of the club and grounds. I was also impressed with the strong support the club got from the Shenfield community. As a Town Planner I know the importance of having such a vibrant club like SCC in a community like Shenfield not only for the development of the young players but also for the peaceful enjoyment of the whole community. Sporting clubs need finance to survive and I sincerely hope that Brentwood Borough Council cease their current course of action and look at other means of raising income and let SCC continue with the management of the carpark and to assist with its commercial viability.

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Rob Hart
8 years ago

I thought it was only the ECB that was trying to kill grassroots cricket. Good luck!

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Mark Cousins
8 years ago

Save grass roots cricket!

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Dan Casley
8 years ago

Spent many afternoons supporting friends playing for S.C.C. Always a welcoming place at any time of day or evening. Part of your local community so do not it let it get resigned to history.

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Peter Wright
8 years ago

The council have never contributed to creationj or maintenance of the car park, which has been used by the club ever since it existed. If the council are short of funds, they should look to their own resources and operations instead of plundering local groups that exist for the benifit of the community.

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Peter Robins, Hobart, Australia
8 years ago

I played in the Shenfield CC 1st XI through the 1960s and captained the Saturday side in 1969 prior to moving to Australia in early 1970. Since then the Club has gone from strength to strength and is a pillar of the community. Council should get behind the Club and support its activities rather than attempt to undermine it. Given the admirable record of the Club in promoting cricket and its great standing and popularity with local people it makes one wonder what kind of warped mind could have devised the current Council campaign.

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Vikesh khagram
8 years ago

sports clubs are an important ingredient to form a vibrant community, do not destroy these.

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Rob williams
8 years ago

We can't keep on losing our green spaces.

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Anonymous
8 years ago

Get em saved

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Anonymous
8 years ago

There’s 101 better ways to spend our local government tax money. The bottomless pit of legal fees isn’t one of them.

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Bryony boston
8 years ago

This cricket club is in the heart of the shenfield community, do not let this be taken away from those who love it

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Steve Brewer
8 years ago

Made very welcome each time l come to your club.

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Andrew Thomson
8 years ago

Shenfield Cricket Club is a lovely family club which a huge number of the local community get great please from. Any action from the council should not affect the existence of this club. It would be terrible if this was to happen

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A C Pryor
8 years ago

Why take away something that benefits a community.

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Margaret
8 years ago

Shouldn't everything be done to encourage active exercise, especially outside? Increase green spaces, not decrease them!

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Anonymous
8 years ago

Stop taking away facilities that keep youngsters occupied and out of trouble, councils and governments have taken too much away already

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John O'Riordan
8 years ago

A sports club is paramount to young people's development. In sport and life. The health benefits long term far outweigh short term financial gain for a council.

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Jonathan Sands
8 years ago

Ask your government for more funding! Stop rinsing the local people. Theresa May and her Conservatives are destroying this country piece by piece. Here is just another example!