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Oak Park leisure centre under new threat
21 Oct 09 03:11 Filed in: News
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Oak Park leisure centre under new threat
The YamYam 21 Oct 09
Walsall Council may be forced into demolishing Oak Park Leisure Centre as well as closing down Walsall Wood football club according to an official report.
The report, scheduled to be presented to Walsall's ruling Cabinet states that the Charities Commission has the power to demand the closure and demolition of the popular centre and long established football club.
Walsall Council was appointed Trustee of the Cannock Chase and Pelsall District Miners Charity in 1932. The Trust comprises of a piece land known as Oak Park, which has an open recreation ground together with the Oak Park Leisure Centre and Walsall Wood Football Club. The terms of the Trust were that the Council were responsible for maintaining an open recreational space for the benefit for the inhabitants of the area and in particular, a restriction was placed upon the land preventing any buildings being put on the land.
However, the council has breached the conditions of the trust by building on the land as well as giving some of the land away to a church in 1975. Council officers are now desperately trying to broker a deal to save the leisure centre and football club by offering an alternative piece of land to the Charities Commission in a land swap compromise.
The official council report does not identify the land that is being offered.
Walsall Council 21 Oct Cannock Chase and Pelsall District Miners Charity (Oak Park) PDF
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Oak Park leisure centre under new threat
The YamYam 21 Oct 09
Walsall Council may be forced into demolishing Oak Park Leisure Centre as well as closing down Walsall Wood football club according to an official report.
The report, scheduled to be presented to Walsall's ruling Cabinet states that the Charities Commission has the power to demand the closure and demolition of the popular centre and long established football club.
Walsall Council was appointed Trustee of the Cannock Chase and Pelsall District Miners Charity in 1932. The Trust comprises of a piece land known as Oak Park, which has an open recreation ground together with the Oak Park Leisure Centre and Walsall Wood Football Club. The terms of the Trust were that the Council were responsible for maintaining an open recreational space for the benefit for the inhabitants of the area and in particular, a restriction was placed upon the land preventing any buildings being put on the land.
However, the council has breached the conditions of the trust by building on the land as well as giving some of the land away to a church in 1975. Council officers are now desperately trying to broker a deal to save the leisure centre and football club by offering an alternative piece of land to the Charities Commission in a land swap compromise.
The official council report does not identify the land that is being offered.
Walsall Council 21 Oct Cannock Chase and Pelsall District Miners Charity (Oak Park) PDF
Walsall Council Oak Park Leisure Centre
Charity Commission Home