Save Rumney Recreation Ground & Eastern Leisure Centre

A petition of 8,500 signatures was presented to the Council in December 2007. Somewhere in the region of 3,500 objections/letters were also delivered to the Council, by hand.

Cardiff City Council were due to publish the report on the findings of the consultation during the Summer of 2008. However, the Council delayed the decision until September 2008, so that Officers could look at “alternative” options.

The report on the consultation findings was not published until October 2008 and failed to include the overall numbers of objections/letters submitted. We contacted the Council to complain about this and their reply stated that our objection letters had been “identical”, so they chose to leave them out, but they did take our objections into account in the report. We wrote back and argued that similarly the Council's objection forms were also “identical” and did not change depending on which stakeholder they were consulting with. We, on the other hand, had around ten different objection letter templates and individuals willingly added their names, addresses and signatures to those letters. The bottom line is that the Council undertook a public consultation - they asked for our feedback, they received our feedback and they should have afforded the local community the respect of including the number of objections in their report.