Slung Out
Despite our best efforts to persuade Wandsworth Council that the garage we were using to store the Broomwood kit was more worthy than a private car driver, the council have decided to carry through an eviction order and have cleared the garage “on our behalf” with bailiffs and a big lorry this morning. This is somewhat surprising given that we have been in a long dialogue with them to at least give us more time. The man responsible for this was the Head of Housing, Ian Stewart, who in a lovely final mail after the bailiffs’ action said “You will appreciate that the Council has to comply with its own policies and as you are aware at least one person on the garage waiting list knew of your continuing occupation of the garage. To allow you to remain would have created an indefensible precedent and left the Council open to public criticism.”
No real mention of the 350 children who play at Broomwood then.
Just so you know what that one person on the waiting list did - they took pictures of the Dads and children returning the cart and said that as it was being used for non-vehicular use, the occupants should be thrown out to make room for the private car owner - a nice touch I’m sure you would agree.
Please feel free to offer any suggestions as to how to criticise the council, or elected councillors who promised with little result, as we would quite like to display our anger that they have taken this wholly inappropriate action. We’re open to any legal ideas.
On a more practical side, we now have a kit problem, in that it has been moved to another “council facility” on the Fitzhugh estate, just off the Trinity Road. In order to play children’s football tomorrow, we need to move at least some of it from there to the pitches and back again at the end. That could happen this evening/tonight using various people’s cars, or tomorrow morning. Let me know if you can assist in transport and perhaps temporary small storage of bits of the kit.
Also, we are in dire and immediate need of a private storage solution close to where we play. Many of you will have seen the carts we use, and it would ideally need to be something to get those in. Any immediate solutions really welcomed – the quicker we can get in the better. We are, and always have been, happy to pay a fair commercial rent.
Yours, extremely hacked off by the council,
Broomwood organising team
Please address your mails for any help to neil.backyard@btinternet.com
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