Victoria Baths in Nottingham - Were you one of the thousands who petitioned the Council not to close them?

Were you one of the thousands who petitioned the Council not to close the Baths? Or one of the many hundreds who took to the streets to protest? Perhaps you were one the thousands who told the Council that you wanted the current building improved rather than demolished and made smaller. Or maybe one of the hundreds who emailed to object to the plans for the unwanted replacement building (which the Council gave permission to last week).

The Council has deliberately ignored you. But you CAN do something about it.

Email Eric Pickles MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. 

Tell him that the Council has no democratic mandate to go ahead with their plans. It was not in their manifesto. It is not what was asked for in the consultations, where the over-whelming response (80%) was to keep the existing centre but to improve it and where the majority voted the design option which retained most of the existing facilities and not the Council's preferred option. Tell him that this important local issue needs to put before an electorate next year. Any development must be postponed until after the forthcoming local elections. Ask him respectfully not to give the Council consent to demolish the Victoria Leisure Centre.

Please - act now before this last window of opportunity to stop the Council closes and the Baths are gone for good.

Please send your emails to eric@ericpickles.com and copy in Bob Neill neillb@parliament.uk

Best wishes,

Save Victoria Baths 

Posted via email from Tom Geraghty