Wednesday, July 27, 2005
St. Mellons Community Education Centre:
As reported in the last edition of the St. Mellons Rose, the Liberal Democrat run Council intends to review the way in which the St. Mellons Community Education Centre (CEC) is managed.
The review became controversial when a rumour the Centre was closing began circulating. Before 2003 the building was divided between Community Education and Leisure Services (sport). In 2003 the management of the whole building was transferred to the Community Education service.
As reported previously in the St. Mellons Rose your Local Councillors have been campaigning to improve sporting facilities in the Ward (the improvements about to begin at Cathcob playing fields are a result of this work). The Council sees the building as playing a key part in this and the review, we are told, will seek to balance the requirements of the sport and leisure and community education.
In early March the Council said a “working group” would be set up to look at the complex issues involved and local residents would be consulted.
More than three months later the working group has not yet met and the Centre and staff remain in limbo. Cllr. Ralph Cook has written to the Council asking it to begin the consultation immediately. In its reply the Council says it has been doing background work prior to arranging the first meetings.
Cllr. Monica Walsh
The review became controversial when a rumour the Centre was closing began circulating. Before 2003 the building was divided between Community Education and Leisure Services (sport). In 2003 the management of the whole building was transferred to the Community Education service.
As reported previously in the St. Mellons Rose your Local Councillors have been campaigning to improve sporting facilities in the Ward (the improvements about to begin at Cathcob playing fields are a result of this work). The Council sees the building as playing a key part in this and the review, we are told, will seek to balance the requirements of the sport and leisure and community education.
In early March the Council said a “working group” would be set up to look at the complex issues involved and local residents would be consulted.
More than three months later the working group has not yet met and the Centre and staff remain in limbo. Cllr. Ralph Cook has written to the Council asking it to begin the consultation immediately. In its reply the Council says it has been doing background work prior to arranging the first meetings.
Cllr. Monica Walsh
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I am glad that the community education centre is not going into leisure, everybody is much happier now
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