Chris Black has submitted the following written questions for the next Full District Council meeting:
1) Have any bookings be taken yet for the new sports pitches near Rayleigh Leisure Centre? If so, by which clubs and for how many hours per week? Are there any bookings for evenings?
2) In September the District Council received complaints about the poor state of the council-owned sports pitches in Rawreth. What steps have been taken to remedy the matter and what is the current situation?
3) Approximately how many problems per month are reported to the District Council via the fixmystreet.com website? Does the council have any particular procedure or protocol for dealing with them?
4) The District Council has recently agreed to allow a maximum of 53,300 aircraft movements per year at Southend Airport, which works out at an average of one movement every 6.9 minutes in daytime hours. Who proposed this figure, how was it arrived at and how will it be enforced?
Chris, where are you going with question 1?
Kris – first of all, I’m genuinely interested ,and it’s the kind of info that all councillors should have (hence a question to council, rather than a simple email)
Secondly, I still think they should have been leased out to a club, and perhaps that idea should still be considered – either sooner or later, depending on circumstances.