Sports Action
ATTLEBOROUGH NEEDS
YOUR MUSCLE – PLEASE REGISTER AS A SUPPORTER
If you believe Attleborough deserves Sports and Leisure facilities
that the entire community can use, then here is your chance
to have your voice heard. It won’t happen overnight, but
it will represent a start in ensuring that your home town is developed
as a community you and your children can feel proud of.
• Breckland
District Council (BDC) suggest that Attleborough has 10,000 residents,
BUT there
are over 17,000 people registered by the NHS as visitors to Attleborough’s
surgeries – this
is a far more accurate estimate of the size of the town!
• Dereham and Wymondham had facilities built when they had 10,000 residents. Diss had facilities when their population reached 6,000. Why does Attleborough
STILL have no adequate facilities?
• BDC
expects you to make a 20 minute trip to use the facilities at Dereham.
That’s 13 miles! Try doing that with two children by infrequent and unreliable public transport. Apart from the cost, it can’t be done in 20 mins... and that’s
before you have to come back!
• Attleborough has been earmarked for more than 4,000 new homes over the next 10 years. This equals another 12-14,000 new residents in the town, and a massive increase in Council Tax revenue!
• A part time sports hall, and a few football pitches are simply
NOT adequate facilities for a town the size of Attleborough! And a simple extension to those, or an all weather pitch would
NOT be adequate now and certainly
WILL NOT be in the future!
• Our community should have facilities available for use by the entire community, when they want to use them,
NOT just available when the school is closed.
• This Is
NOT simply about Sport and Leisure facilities in Attleborough. Developments like these promote stronger communities, and greater personal identity with a town. Our children
DESERVE nothing less than that.
• Insist your District Councillors
ACTIVELY support the Community Sports and Leisure needs of
ALL the residents of the town!
YOU ARE PAYING FOR THEM TO REPRESENT YOU!
Getting the Sports and Leisure facilities that Attleborough deserves
won't happen overnight, but it will help if we can get as many people
supporting the cause.
Please leave your name and email address, and any comments you'd
like to make, and we'll let you know when important developments
take place. Or keep checking Dispatch for regular updates of what's
happening.
Thank you for your support. We can't do it without you.