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A group of Windmill Theatre and Littlehampton Swimming & Sport Centre Users and Supporters who, like the Town and Parish Councils, want Theatre, Arts, Cinema, Indoor Swimming, Leisure & Sports Facilities to have Long-Term Future on the Seafront
The Draft Leisure Strategy prepared for Arun District Council proposes to close the Windmill Theatre near the rivermouth and have the site developed as a Budget Hotel such as a Premier Inn or Travelodge, and to sell-off the site of the Littlehampton Swimming and Sports Centre for Housing Development, including the site of the Sports Dome, and to build a new Swimming / Leisure Centre inland which would be shared with the Littlehampton Academy. These proposals are strongly opposed by Littlehampton Town Council and Rustington Parish Council as well as the wider community. Littlehampton and nearby areas would be left without a proper performing arts theatre, no cinema, no indoor swimming facility in the part of the town used by day trippers and holiday makers, and seriously compromised access to the new leisure centre on the Academy site, and loss of accessible and valued open space in two parts of the seafront.
The Final Draft of the Strategy was published on 17th September 2012 at the start of a 19-day Consultation Period. Local amenity groups that had been following the progress of the Strategy realised the serious impact some proposals would have on a number of local user groups in Littlehampton, Rustington, and the surrounding area, and eventually over 20 groups and a large number of individual users came together at a Community-led Public Meeting in the New Millennium Chamber of the Littlehampton Town Hall on 2nd October. It was the best attended Public Meeting of its kind in 30 years, indicating how widely the effects of the proposals would be felt. Strong feelings were expressed and many constructive ideas aired. At the end of the meeting there was a unanimous rejection of the Leisure Strategy Consultants' suggestions, and universal support for Littlehampton Town Council and Rustington Parish Council who the week before had reacted similarly.
The Forum voted to Set Up and Empower an Action Group to come up with options the community could support and to take the views of the Meeting forward with the District Council, and to report back to the Community Forum born out of the October 2nd Meeting.
A group of Windmill Theatre and Littlehampton Swimming & Sport Centre Users and Supporters who, like the Town and Parish Councils, want Theatre, Arts, Cinema, Indoor Swimming, Leisure & Sports Facilities to have Long-Term Future on the Seafront
The Draft Leisure Strategy prepared for Arun District Council proposes to close the Windmill Theatre near the rivermouth and have the site developed as a Budget Hotel such as a Premier Inn or Travelodge, and to sell-off the site of the Littlehampton Swimming and Sports Centre for Housing Development, including the site of the Sports Dome, and to build a new Swimming / Leisure Centre inland which would be shared with the Littlehampton Academy. These proposals are strongly opposed by Littlehampton Town Council and Rustington Parish Council as well as the wider community. Littlehampton and nearby areas would be left without a proper performing arts theatre, no cinema, no indoor swimming facility in the part of the town used by day trippers and holiday makers, and seriously compromised access to the new leisure centre on the Academy site, and loss of accessible and valued open space in two parts of the seafront.
The Final Draft of the Strategy was published on 17th September 2012 at the start of a 19-day Consultation Period. Local amenity groups that had been following the progress of the Strategy realised the serious impact some proposals would have on a number of local user groups in Littlehampton, Rustington, and the surrounding area, and eventually over 20 groups and a large number of individual users came together at a Community-led Public Meeting in the New Millennium Chamber of the Littlehampton Town Hall on 2nd October. It was the best attended Public Meeting of its kind in 30 years, indicating how widely the effects of the proposals would be felt. Strong feelings were expressed and many constructive ideas aired. At the end of the meeting there was a unanimous rejection of the Leisure Strategy Consultants' suggestions, and universal support for Littlehampton Town Council and Rustington Parish Council who the week before had reacted similarly.
The Forum voted to Set Up and Empower an Action Group to come up with options the community could support and to take the views of the Meeting forward with the District Council, and to report back to the Community Forum born out of the October 2nd Meeting.