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For the Spring 2008
Newsletter,
click here. This document will appear in Word
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Newsletter Archive
Closed Championships 2008 - results and
pictures
Harrow Leisure Centre - planning
permission sought by Council
As you may be
aware, Harrow Council is proposing that the existing Leisure Centre in
Wealdstone be pulled down and replaced by new houses, with a new,
smaller, Leisure Centre being built on the site of the existing car
park.
Although there
are many faults of the existing table tennis facility, the plans for
the new Leisure Centre include no permanent table tennis area - we
would have to share with five-a-side football, badminton, trampolining,
etc., with no guarantee either of booking nor of the adequacy of
playing conditions.
For this reason,
the League's Management Committee is opposing the Council's plans,
both on its own and jointly with other sports through the Harrow
Sports Council. The Committee realises that the current facility is
not perfect, but that not having it will jeopardise the future of
table tennis in the area. It is also felt that, having received a
grant from Sport England for the establishment of the facility in the
1990s, that he Council has an obligation to provide a permanent area
for table tennis, whether at a proposed new Leisure Centre or not.
Members are invited to:
a)
tell the management Committee what they think of the proposals, and
any constructive suggestions, either by reply to this e-mail or by
contacting anyone through the contacts in the handbook;
b) give
their opinions to Harrow Council, via the internet, as follows:
- go to
www.ukplanning.com/harrow
- in the box for Application Number,
enter P/4222/07/cfu and click
on search
- click on Comment On Application
- enter your
name, address, tel. no. and e-mail
- highlight 'object
to proposal' (assuming that is
your opinion)
The volume of replies
is as important if
not more so than their
content. There is no specified
closing date, so replies should be submitted as early as possible.
Thank you.
Middlesex Junior Closed Championships
This event will
take place on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 March at the Southall Sports
Centre. Here's the entry form:
Pages 1 and 4
Pages 2 and 3
New Summer League Secretary
Tony Dias has agreed to take over as Summer League
Secretary for the 2008 season. More news from Tony nearer the time...
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