Save Rumney Recreation Ground & Eastern Leisure Centre

93% NO

RUMNEY

No..... 1597 votes

Yes..... 81 votes 

Spoiled Ballots..... 11

Turnout.....26.3%     NO vote 94.5% 

LLANRUMNEY

No.....2082 votes

Yes.....170 votes

Spoiled Ballots.....18

Turnout.....28.7%     NO vote 91.7%

The Council have dismissed our 8,500 signature petition and over 3,500 objection letters submitted during the consultation period. Furthermore, this matter has received a great deal of coverage in the local press over the past 18 months and numerous residents have written letters to the local newspaper voicing their opposition to the proposal. Residents believe the Council are totally ignoring the depth of opposition in the area. It would appear that they seem hell bent on selling off the existing school land for housing development, merely for profit. They would be selling off two perfectly good school sites, making them redundant for any future council housing, whilst at the same time reassigning our public open space and parkland in a grossly inappropriate manner and depriving all future generations of this community of its use for leasure. They keep telling us this is done in the name of “education” and better “community facilities”. They are not, however, taking the health and well being, or the community's feelings on the matter into account.

There is also the issue of the possible future anti social behaviour that may ensue, due to the loss of this parkland, once it has been re-designated as a school site. Children will not wish to play during their own after school leisure time in what will then be classed as school grounds and since there is no alternative parkland nearby they will be left to roam the streets and expend their excess energy in what will most likely manifest as anti social behaviour, of which this community sees enough already without the Council deliberately taking away what the children see as their playground.

Residents of Rumney held a meeting on the evening of Tuesday13^th Jan and voted in favour of a Referendum.

One Hundred and thirty five residents of Llanrumney met on Tuesday 20^th January and did likewise.

 
Our local Referendum, we have been advised, should take place on the 17th  February.

However, the Council have deemed fit to forego the usual democratic process by denying both postal and proxy votes to those (in particular elderly and disabled who would not be fit enough to make their own way to the polling stations) who would normally be entitled to a postal vote, as well as those who for whatever reason due to other commitments at the time would ordinarily require such a vote, thereby denying these people their democratic rights!