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We had an email from a resident who wrote:<\/p>\n

Hi Chris just looked at your web site there doesn’t seem to be anything about Rayleigh sports centre being taken over by Virgin active. Were you aware? Seems that the council paid rather a lot of money to finance the new sports centre and clements hall I am really surprised that there hasn’t been pressure by the council on Holmes place not to sell to Virgin, mainly because most people can’t afford Virgin prices and although they have
\nsaid that most prices will stay the same until 2008, what will happen then? We will have facilities that people have paid for that only a few can afford!!!
\nPlease can you let me know your thoughts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well , the council haven’t made a public statement yet, they are waiting to see if the takeover actually takes place. But they have confirmed to us to me if the takeover goes ahead, the terms of the council’s contract will remain unchanged, Virgin would be allowed to make increases in line with inflation, but no higher than that without the agreement of the council. (Having said that, it might well affect some of the membership deals on offer)<\/p>\n

Whilst we are writing about sports centres here’s a couple of points – <\/p>\n

We know that some people have been bothered by floodlights etc from the Rayleigh Leisure Centre . Is anyone still having problems?<\/p>\n

We are also disappointed that the District Council hasn’t done yet to sort out the land south of the new sports centre – it’s supposed to be public open space, but looks just like derelict land at the moment. Do people have any thoughts on this?<\/p>\n

\"Rough<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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