Blue in Munich
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New e-petition - Save Blue Mountain
- Thread starter sawtooth
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sev112
Tour Winner
If you drive around bracknell and wokingham at the moment all you see are housing estates being built - the whole are will be gridlocked at rush hour
The Southern is a roadblock in the rush hour trying to get out past the Jennetts Park development onto the A329 and out towards Reading and the M4. There is another huge development going on in Wokingham which will feed the same road from a junction down and it doesn't take a genius to realise the roads can't take it already. There are plans to build opposite the Coppid Beech hotel which will send all the traffic down to the A329 in the rush hour and if you then add the proposed Blue Mountain site further back towards the town itself, how is that traffic ever going to filter out? There are huge jams in the town in the rush hour (Peel Centre, Bagshot Road etc) and it's got no escape valve.
sev112
Tour Winner
Yep, all of those, plus all the smaller ones - there are 3 "smaller" ones going on around Binfield also at the moment which will add to those too
sawtooth
Tour Winner
http://www.savebluemountain.org.uk/
There's a make a pledge link on the page, cheers.
Many thanks all for signing up and spreading the word! It looks like 40 signatures added in the last couple of days and most of that is probably down to you.:thup:
penderg
Newbie
All for those of you who have signed the petition we really thank you just to establish some facts which are as follows it would be totally fantastic if we could pass this around the country I am busy mailing as many golf clubs as it possible as our kids and golfers plus the local population are being totally ignored by this council don't be fooled by the need for houses as there are 11.000 proposed already in the area please keep pushing every little helps and anybody with access to a prominent figure I and the Save Blue Mountain Committee would be happy to meet. Gerry Pender (BM Club Captain) We would like to draw your attention to concerns we have over the Golf Centre Study which was used to back up the site allocations process by concluding that Blue Mountain is surplus to requirements. We consider this report is flawed for the following reasons:
- It does not take into account the large number of houses being built in the north of the borough within a 5 minute drive (not 20 minutes as the report suggests) which will result in a doubling of the population of Binfield, and a huge increase in neighbouring areas of Warfield, Wokingham and Bracknell.
1,000 homes Amen Corner North and South
2,000 homes Warfield
2,000 homes wokingham (London Road)
274 Homes at Keephatch
1,725 Homes at Warren House Road (Kentwood phase one and two)
2. It does not take into account the closure of the following golf courses:
Bearwood – 9 hole played as 18 hole. Closed recently. Sold to Reading football club as new training ground
Maidenhead – municipal 18 hole golf course threatened with housing development
Are there any others?
3. Many golf clubs on the list are members only – and access prohibitively expensive for ordinary people in area. They cannot be directly compared to Blue Mountain, and should not have been included in the report. Blue Mountain was limited by the S52 legal agreement and is limited in the number of members, and must be available to the public
4. Blue Mountain currently offers a fantastic youth training academy which provides:
110 children through its academy each week
holiday courses during summer holidays
During term time organises tournaments and borough wide events in and outside of school
There is no guarantee that Downshire will be able to provide such facilities or will have the same impact on encouraging young people to join in with golfing activities from a young age
It did not take into account the wide variety of other activities the golf centre offers in terms of conferencing facilities, local events, etc.
5. Downshire – the Council run golf course Downshire is not in a sutainable location to be set aside as a suitable replacement for losing Blue Mountain and the residents surrounding this golf course. There will be 110 children per week losing out on good value training facilities or having to travel a considerable distance across the borough to access them elsewhere.
6. A recent visit to the Driving Range on Sunday 23 June saw every bay at the driving range full at midday. There were at least 20 children in various groups learning and practising golf skills. This is a highly valued facility and kit should have been protected by the local council (as per the agreement they signed in 1990) and not condemned.
7. The financial status of Downshire and its own conference centre Easthampstead Park, which have not been making profit for many years, brings into question the motives behind suggesting that Blue Mountain is surplus to requirements and removing this business from the local economy. The residents of Binfield and further beyond still do not understand why this site was not suggested as it is owned by the council.
8. It is not considered that the Football Stadium (and possibly cricket club) will provide a bigger, better, or appropriate replacement of sporting facilities for the people of this area, and indeed the local residents of Bracknell town will be losing these facilities.
9. We feel uncomfortable about links between the landowner at Blue Mountain, Bracknell Town Football Club, the council and the planning consultants representing all parties in this deal.
If Sport England has access to legal advice we would like to know whether there is anything you could do to involve them in the process and defend the removal of this facility which will have a hugely detrimental effect on the take up of golf in the area. We need you to investigate these questions and put to the council and landowner at this stage – before the golf course is closed in April 2015 as the council has already indicated to the public will happen.
We think it is vitally important to provide a wide selection of sporting facilities to the people of the area, especially as golf provides such wide ranging appeal from very young children through to the elderly and is so inclusive regardless of background, sex or ability. With the current focus on regular exercise, the benefits of green space and social inclusion we feel it is the responsibility of Sport England to defend this on our behalf
Quite a few golf courses in Southern and South-East England are under threat of redevelopment, and these are often the cheaper pay and play type courses that can potentially attract new players to the game. Good luck in your opposition to this shabby deal by Bracknell Forest Council. 
sawtooth
Tour Winner
I wasn't expecting that, I was just coming onto this thread to give it a bump and lo and behold the captain beats me to it! :thup:
Welcome to the forum Gerry!
Welcome to the forum Gerry!
