Sheffield Council to lease park land to Parks Tennis CIC

[WarPig 75]

SCC are to be disposing of land in Sheffield Parks by leasing to Parks Tennis CIC. Plans can be viewed at Town Hall.

 

Parks affected are..

 

Graves Park

Hillsborough

Weston

Bingham

Concord

High Hazels

Millhouses

[max 13]

I think you'll find that SCC are not disposing of land in Sheffield merely allowing a community group to take over control of booking, maintenance etc. A little bit of fact checking would not go amiss.

 

Future secured for parks.

[1978 14]

I think you'll find that SCC are not disposing of land in Sheffield merely allowing a community group to take over control of booking, maintenance etc. A little bit of fact checking would not go amiss.

 

Future secured for parks.

 

 

Far from being a cry to arms, this should be applauded as a sensible way to ensure Sheffield's public tennis courts are better maintained for more people to be able to play more often.

 

For more information see here; https://parkstennis.co.uk/sheffield

[Jon26 10]

Has anyone managed to find a link to the plans? Or is a visit to the town hall the only way of finding out what there plans are.

[bassett one 449]

does this pass the rules of graves park?

[Bargepole23 337]

does this pass the rules of graves park?

 

It should be looked at in the context of the current use and condition of the courts and what benefits it will provide, not measured against compliance with rules laid down in the 1930's or whenever it was.

[alchresearch 214]

Amazing. Private enterprise successfully taking over and managing what were council services and providing a better service. Just goes to show it can work.

[RichK 10]

I think you'll find that SCC are not disposing of land in Sheffield merely allowing a community group to take over control of booking, maintenance etc. A little bit of fact checking would not go amiss.

 

Future secured for parks.

 

The newspaper notice this morning states:

 

"The council proposes to dispose of areas of land by way of lease".

 

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Also, Parks Tennis CIC is run by Premier Tennis Ltd, which might have lots of references to "community" but it doesn't look much like a community group to me, they're an Oxford based company.

[Tiberius 10]

Were they free to use before this?

This isn't provoking question, I genuinely don't know!

If they are free to use and then they will not be, then it will be bad thing in my opinion.

[1978 14]

Also, Parks Tennis CIC is run by Premier Tennis Ltd, which might have lots of references to "community" but it doesn't look much like a community group to me, they're an Oxford based company.

 

No bias against Oxford then! As far as I can tell Parks Tennis CIC (Community Interest Company) is the one signing the lease/s. Premier Tennis Ltd are the ones who will be, and seemingly already are, managing the courts day to day.

 

They're taking advantage of modern ways of managing community assets unheard of 80 years ago. Many local authority tennis courts across the nation have been badly neglected for decades so it must be an improvement to have tennis specialists involved.

 

Glad to note the original thread title has been amended to more accurately reflect the true psosition

Edited June 6, 2017 by 1978
Acknowledged change of thread title which makes earlier comments difficult to understand

[RichK 10]

No bias against Oxford, I'm just stating facts as rather archly requested by Max. Parts of Sheffield's parkland are being disposed of by lease (council's words) to a group which are owned by a private company. I haven't found any details of the length of this lease.

Edited June 6, 2017 by RichK

[Bargepole23 337]

Were they free to use before this?

This isn't provoking question, I genuinely don't know!

If they are free to use and then they will not be, then it will be bad thing in my opinion.

 

Don't think they were free to use in the Eighties/Nineties, if my memory serves. Bingham Park had a small pavilion, then a container when the hut was burned down, and I'm sure I've paid to play both tennis and golf.