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Slung Out - the response

If any of you were on the common last Saturday you will now be aware of the impact of our eviction from the garage in Mayford Rd by Wandsworth Council last Friday.

The amount of kit that we can now use will be significantly depleted owing to the difficulty of transporting it from the temporary storage solution the Council has imposed upon us at a Fitzhugh Estate lock-up. Unfortunately, the Fitzhugh garage doesn’t work for us at all since we have 2 heavy carts that store all the kit and each has to be hand-pulled by 3 people onto the pitches. We can’t use the pedestrian footbridge over the railway because of the railings and therefore would have to make a long round-trip down Trinity Road and across the railway at Bellevue Road which would be impractical and far less safe for all concerned.

Whatever the merits of the Council’s decision the club now has a problem to find a location nearer to our pitches. There are various suggestions that the club are considering but to give a focus to our actions I am asking that all Broomwood FC supporters email our elected Councillors making known your concerns and asking for help in finding a far more convenient location to store our kit. Quite a few of us have already started a dialogue with the Councillors but I am now asking you to add to this campaign. Please use your own words and ways of expressing yourself to your Councillors but to help you I attach 4 sample emails (see botom of post) that have been already been drawn up. I will leave it up to you to decide how you do this. When writing please remember to include your home address, phone number and target your own 3 ward representatives if you can.

Relevant email address are shown below so please and try and send as many as possible; Councillors are duty-bound to try and respond to all constituent residents.

The 3 Councillors who represent the ward we play in (Northcote Ward) are:

Philip Beddows - pbeddows@wandsworth.gov.uk

Peter Dawson - pdawson@wandsworth.gov.uk

Martin Johnson - martinjohnson@wandsworth.gov.uk (Cabinet member for Housing)

The 3 Councillors who represent the ward on the other side of the railway bridge (Wandsworth Cmn Ward) are:

Kathy Tracey - ktracey@wandsworth.gov.uk (Cabinet Member for Childrens’ Services)

Maurice Heaster - mheaster@wandsworth.gov.uk (Deputy Leader of the Council)

Henry Pugh - hpugh@wandsworth.gov.uk (Chairman of Audit)

A handy list of all 60 Councillors and the ward they preside over is in the link shown here http://openlylocal.com/councils/2-London-Borough-of-Wandsworth: - once through the link scroll down and you will see the email addresses.

Other Councillor email addresses which may be of use are:

Edward Lister - elister@wandsworth.gov.uk (Leader of the Council)

Sarah McDermott - smcdermott@wandsworth.gov.uk (Cabinet Member for Environment, Leisure & Amenity Services i.e. Sport)

The more adventurous may wish to go for:

Boris Johnson mayor@london.gov.uk

David Cameron camerond@parliament.uk

Jane Ellison (Candidate & Tory Parliamentary Spokesperson for Battersea, Balham & Wandsworth)
http://www.janeellison.net/index/contact

Martin Linton (MP) martinlinton@btinternet.com

Sir Trevor Brooking (FA Director of Football Development)

The Football Association
25 Soho Square
London
W1D 4FA

In times like this results are created through action on a common front. Your help is needed ……so email away!

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