Aylesbury United Football club have expressed their support of the 'Save Bucks Sports and Social Club Campaign Group' by sending them a letter.
The Councils proposal seeks permission to bring forward a mixture of houses and apartments of up to approximately 100 mixed homes.
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You can find the 'Save Bucks Sports and Social Club Campaign Group' here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/751459435843883
Aylesbury United's letter in full:
Dear Mr.Duncan
We are writing to you to express our support for your campaign to preserve the site of the former Bucks Sports and Social Club to provide sports and community facilities for local residents.
There is a chronic lack of appropriate sporting facilities in a town the size of Aylesbury. Because of this, the costs of those facilities that do exist are significantly more expensive to hire than those in local towns such as Dunstable and Thame. To lose a site that could alleviate both the problems of inadequate access and high charges – as well as providing a significant benefit to the local community – to yet another housing development is both illogical and disheartening.
The Aylesbury United first team has been without a home ground in the town for more than 15 years, but our Junior, Ladies and Girls, pan-disability, and Walking football sections all continue to play within the town. This covers more than 400 young people, aged from three, all the way to adult and senior sides, all of whom need facilities to train and play. They all suffer from the issues outlined above, and the site represents a ready-made solution to mitigate this.
When the decision was made to close the Social Club site, the club made a competitive proposal – one that was supported by the then-chair of Stoke Mandeville Parish Council
– for the site to accommodate the club’s Junior, Ladies & Girls and pan-disability teams. Since then, demand for the club’s community sides has only increased, and our plan would still provide the local authority with a regular income that would both cover its costs and deliver a profit – but primarily execute the council’s responsibility to maintain the site as an asset of community value
Yours faithfully,
Graham Read
Chairman, Aylesbury United FC
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