Save Rumney Recreation Ground & Eastern Leisure Centre

As stated briefly on the home page, we are a group of upwards of 500 members, from the Llanrumney and Rumney areas as well as others from outside these areas with an interest in the Eastern Leisure Centre and Rumney Recreational Grounds, who for various reasons are in opposition to Cardiff County Council building a new combined school for Llanrumney and Rumney on that site and selling the land of the existing two schools to developers and we need your support. 

Our group began in the summer of 2007 in response to the Council's proposal to knock down the two existing schools and build one combined school on the Eastern Leisure Centre and Rumney Recreational Grounds site to serve both areas as well as replacing/refurbishing the Leisure Centre and then to sell the land from the two Existing schools on Newport Road and Ball Road to developers. 

On the face of it this seemed like a good idea, as both schools have been long overdue for refurbishment/replacement and have been allowed to deteriorate into a pitiful state for a very long time. 

However, the Council's proposals will create far more problems than they will solve for this area and these decisions are being made by people who do not live in either the Rumney, or the Llanrumney area and therefore have no personal interest in what takes place here and will not be personally affected by the disruption to both communities that these proposals will create. They also seem to be content to allow the majority of the community to remain ignorant of what is actually going on, such that many people think that the proposals are a done deal with no possible alternatives and that the develpment will go ahead anyway regardless of what any residents may feel, or say about it.

Therefore, our purpose as the RREEL Action Group is to inform and educate as many of the community as possible about the facts of this situation so that we can then let the Council know our views and needs as a community, rather than the Council simply deciding for themselves what they consider to be our needs and perhaps ultimately not only acting against the wishes of the majority of the community but more importantly against the best interests of this community, those visitors from elsewhere who use the facilities of the leisure centre and the visitors to and people of Cardiff as a whole who benefit from the facilities of the recreation grounds and leisure centre being there.

If we were to simply stand by and allow this current Council to reassign this ground and its facilities in the grossly inappropriate and wholly unnecessary manner which they propose, then not only will this community lose a great jewel now, but it will also be lost to all future generations to come.