| Pavilion - taken a while ago |
This
afternoon Reading Borough Council (RBC) published a report to its Policy
Committee which recommends the continued closure of Mapledurham Pavilion. Here is the report.
As blogged on 21 January, RBC’s administration announced its decision to temporarily
close the Pavilion pending a detailed structural survey. RBC estimated that this would be for a period
of 6 weeks. The decision followed the
recommendation of an earlier survey which raised safety concerns about bowing
of the southern external wall.
Today’s news
of the prolonging of the temporary closure was communicated to User Groups by
RBC this afternoon. I too wrote to the users
and as readers may be interested, here is what I said:
“I know your
respective groups have all been inconvenienced by the temporary closure of the
Pavilion, for which I am very sorry. I appreciate that the news of the
continuing closure is most unwelcome.
“As chairman
I have called an urgent meeting of the Mapledurham Playing Fields Management
(MPFM) Committee to discuss the report going to Policy Committee, Agenda item
8, a link to which is: http://www.reading.gov.uk/article/8775/Policy-Committee-14-MAR-2016
“MPFM
Committee meeting
The MPFM
Committee meeting will be in the Civic Centre at 8 am on Thursday 10th March.
You are welcome to attend as long as you register your wish to attend with
Nicky Simpson by noon on Wednesday 9th March so she is able to
check that there is sufficient seating and that your name is added to the
attendees list. This will ensure that security will let you into the
building (which doesn’t open until 9 am) when you press the intercom at the
building’s main entrance.
“In order for
the meeting to finish in time for people to get to work I will not be allowing
observers to speak. If there are any questions you would like considered,
please notify me by noon on 9th March.
“Policy
Committee meeting
Members of
the public are allowed to attend Policy Committee which will take place on
Monday 14th March at 6.30 pm. I will be addressing the
committee on Agenda item 8 as MPFM’s chairman. Simon Hill in Committee
Services is the Policy Committee’s administrator to contact if you have any
queries, his details are on the same link mentioned above.”
For those interested, here is the detailed structural report referred to in RBC's Policy Committee report.
