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On Thursday night there was a strange, rather worrying debate at the District Council about the Grange Community Centre in Rayleigh. The lease on the building is coming up for renewal, and the officers were recommending that we renew the lease to the Rayleigh Grange Community Association for another 20 years. They wrote To provide certainty about the Council?s continued support for the centre, a further 21-year lease is recommended. The recent White Paper Strong and Prosperous Communities encourages local authorities to foster community participation through community management of local community halls <\/em><\/p>\n However we’d heard rumours that the Tory group weren’t<\/em> going to support this. And that’s indeed what happened:<\/p>\n Are the Tories simply being unhelpful towards the community association? Or is someone actually planning to take back the building and knock it down to build some of the 1800 houses they are talking about for Rayleigh?<\/strong><\/p>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Thursday night there was a strange, rather worrying debate at the District Council about the Grange Community Centre in Rayleigh. The lease on the building is coming up for renewal, and the officers were recommending that we renew the lease to the Rayleigh Grange Community Association for another 20 years. They wrote To provide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19,1,4,27],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n