Save Fairycroft House

Recently a County Council press release announced plans for a "New Multicentre" for Saffron Walden.

Using the whole ex Social Care building solely for adult education would help to fulfil a growing need for local training and lifelong learning facilities. However, the space within the same building proposed for youth groups (if moved from FairyCroft House) is a claustrophobic basement with low ceilings and lacking daylight. Serious health and safety concerns have been voiced that the Social Care building is totally unsuitable for use by youth groups.

FairyCroft community centre is not surplus to demand. If it was then why are the County Council thought to be paying rent for local offices when access to recently refurbished, excellent first floor offices at Fairy Croft already exists? Puzzling.

Decision makers are begged to act with foresight and to choose a good moral path for local well being, and respectfully asked to consider that expanding populations need more community learning and leisure space - not less.