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Thursday 29 August 2013

Brent's Unsung Sports Centres

A consultation has been launched into possible future options for the Bridge Park Sports Centre in Stonebridge.  Nothing can be guaranteed for this site, but it reminds me of all the good work that is proceeding in Brent's Sports Centres despite the collossal financial challenges.  Let's just go through them:

A) Moberly Sports Centre is going through a major expansion and rebuild.  Although this is a Westminster facility, Brent residents will have access at the same concessionary rates as at any other Brent sports centre.
B) The contract for Vale Farm Sports Centre has been relet at a greatly reduced running cost, and with capital investment of almost £2 million to improve it.
C) The Charteris Sports Centre remains in use as a sports centre with community access outside school hours.
D) There remains the possibility of a privately financed swimming pool in the Wembley area, if the private sector pushes the project forward.  Such a centre in Tokyngton would be available to Brent residents at the same rates as other Brent Sports Centres.
E) The Willesden Sports Centre continues to thrive having been completely rebuilt under a PFI scheme by the previous Labour administration in 2006.

This is on top of a number of smaller projects around Brent parks.

Altogether it seems to me a pretty impressive record of progress despite the biggest financial cut backs ever seen in the history of Brent.

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