Poll-Would you pay a £1 a year to keep Don Valley open?

[80swasfun 10]

Get rid of it if it made money there would be no talk of closing it

[SevenRivers 10]

According to the SCC it costs £700k per year to run Don Valley and according to the latest census there’s around 699,000 people living in Sheffield.

 

So if we all paid a pound a year we could keep this excellent facility open and hopefully one day nurture another Olympic champion.

 

So simple question, if asked would you pay a pound a year to keep this open?

 

 

It would still be hundreds of thousands of pounds short. For a start, your population figures are way out by about 250,000. Even then, not everybody in the population is a taxpayer.

[scargill 10]

According to the SCC it costs £700k per year to run Don Valley and according to the latest census there’s around 699,000 people living in Sheffield.

 

So if we all paid a pound a year we could keep this excellent facility open and hopefully one day nurture another Olympic champion.

 

So simple question, if asked would you pay a pound a year to keep this open?

 

That would be a £1 for every person, so around £4 per year per family, including those that currently pay nothing in council tax, rent etc. I would pay but many wont and cannot afford to pay according to what they are claiming at present.

[CeeCee 10]

No get rid!

[sand_dollars 10]

I voted no most of the time it stands there empty.

 

Can think of plenty of better things to spend the extra pound on.

 

Me too ..................x

[InigoMontoya 10]

But surely given Jessica Ennis has moved into a £1m house, she can afford to pay for it herself?

 

[Runs away and hides behind something. Manchester or Leeds, probably]

[Blue Day 10]

Too expensive for the very few that use it.

 

So it's a no from me

[L00b 441]

But surely given Jessica Ennis has moved into a £1m house, she can afford to pay for it herself?

Why should she?

 

Genuine question: why should she make up for the Council's lack of relevant planning/foresight/policies/etc. (at least where Don Valley stadium is concerned) just because she recently done good?

 

Smacks a bit of misplaced, spend-others-money-like-it's-going-out-of-fashion socialism if you ask me

[sheffrichard 10]

I would gladly pay a pound to keep it open. More things are held there than what people think, and its the last big thing we have left in sheffield, leeds will have a new bigger arena to compete with ours, the world snooker championship will be moved soon. So why would people visit sheffield our busy town centre with empty shops?

For those people who think paying a pound is a waste to keep it open, the plan is to redevelope the woodbourn road site again to try and get it to a similar level to don valley. So all your taxes will be spent on building a smaller crapier version of don valley.

Lets not forget all the money lost with the compulsary purchases made on the shops down the moor and around town for that redevelopement that has been going on for how many years now with nothing to show for it.

[Lestat 10]

SCC basically admitting they made a mistake, I can't believe the place where I enjoyed so many concerts including the 'King of Pop' himself, is to be torn down!!??.. It's a real shame, the city of sport is turning into the city of demolished area's due to council mistakes.

 

Now that the Leeds Arena has been given the green light, don't be surprised if the Sheffield Arena soon goes the same way, closed down & then ripped down - finally having an Ikea there, which was the original idea.

[Bonzo77 13]

According to the SCC it costs £700k per year to run Don Valley and according to the latest census there’s around 699,000 people living in Sheffield.

 

So if we all paid a pound a year we could keep this excellent facility open and hopefully one day nurture another Olympic champion.

 

So simple question, if asked would you pay a pound a year to keep this open?

 

Why should we pay for something that the council should be paying for? If they can't think of a way to keep it running, why did they open the thing in the first place?

[bothyman 10]

I'll say 'no'. Such a big facility should be funded on a regional or national level if it's that important.

I will throw in at least a pound to keep Children's Centre nurseries and Stocksbridge Leisure Centre going though.