I can assure John that there is nowhere at the water park large enough for a full-size, all-weather football pitch and a pitch for younger children. But his letter did confirm that this dispute is about adults, not children.
He refers to a clubhouse not being in sight, so although we want the children to play football and keep healthy, where can we adults go and have a few, safe in the knowledge that someone else is entertaining our children?
We have the West End WMC not far from the proposed site. I feel sure it would welcome the business. If the action group is talking about taking this project to the water park and supporting the Windsurfer with its custom then why did it not use the place in the past – it may have possibly stopped its
closure.
He says that everything is at the highest point and open to the elements, but this is only the same as the high school. As he puts it, locating it in the field next to the cemetery would "one more nail in the coffin". Is this in addition to the one that will be built on Sandy Gate Lane, which will have its own changing rooms?
Perhaps one day Coun Womersley might be able to do a grant application to have a clubhouse built in or around the new football complex. However, if you take this project to the water park you are taking it out of Hemsworth altogether.
As for running the gauntlet on Crosshills, that happens district and country and in more ways than one.
Are we showing children a good example when we allow them into licensed premises where there are gambling machines and statements like 'fighting to the death' being made by people that should know better?
I don't think so.
Mary Botham,
West Street,
Hemsworth