Forum for residents of St Georges Park and Long Leys Road Lincoln

[john shipton]

Hopefully the LLRA, Lincolnshire County Council, Lincoln City Council, and our councillors will find a suitable settlement for community facilities on the former SEC site on Long Leys Road.
So residents must play their part in getting this achieved. After all, the brief was laid down in Lincoln Plan endorsed way back in 1998 by the City of Lincoln Council.
Now that City Hall is going to close two community centres, one on the St Giles estate and the other on the Ermine, in Lincoln, and are increasing charges to use the rest of the community centres left, and that includes the useage of the Grandstand, their are residents in Lincoln who are prepared to stand up and be counted.
This article taken from the Lincolnshire Echo today, 13th February, should encourage one and all.

Mass protest over community centres closure plans
Friday, February 13, 2009, 07:30am
Residents are to launch a mass protest to try to save community centres in Lincoln.
Residents from St Giles will stage a demonstration outside City Hall, in Beaumont Fee, Lincoln on Monday, March 2, when councillors decide if St Giles Community Centre in Swift Gardens, Lincoln and Ermine Community Centre in Queen Elizabeth Road will be axed.
As many as 200 people who regularly use the St Giles centre will descend on the city centre wearing campaign T-shirts and armed with placards.
They want to make their message heard as members arrive for the full council meeting.
Organiser Marcus Hacker (37), of Robert Tressell Walk, Lincoln, says that local groups want to form a community consortium and take over the running of the building.
"We want to try and persuade the council not to close the centre but its looking unlikely," he said. "We are now trying to put a business plan together so the council can have it before the meeting. We would like to form some kind of community trust to take over the centre."
Councillor Darren Grice announced last week that the centres had been earmarked for closure as the authority tries to make up a shortfall of cash from central Government.
He now says he is happy to listen to residents' suggestions.
For more on the campaign, see Friday's Echo.