THE ISSUES

• Completion of New Village Hall is essential for progress of many ideas listed here
• Reporting of progress on new village hall is sketchy and irregular
• Hall is essential for adult education and evening sports clubs
• Children's Play Area needs a complete overhaul and safety check
• Tennis Court needs restoring
• Football Pitch needs draining and Trim Trail Built around perimeter
• No Evening Entertainment for Young People
• Demand exists for a variety of adult education classes

The Problem

• All the village's existing recreation facilities are elderly and in need of repair.
• The village hall is disintegrating and unsafe to use
• There is a great deal of interest in adult education, particularly computer classes and special interest groups such as music and languages, but there is nowhere to hold events
• The tennis court is in desperate need of repair and the children's play area is full of old equipment that is becoming increasingly dangerous .
• The recreation ground needs to have new drainage laid to prevent the dramatic flooding seen in recent years, and to continue to attract young sportspeople to support village teams.
• The new hall will provide indoor facilities for activities such as Badminton and Table Tennis, but the outdoor multi-use games area (MUGA) incorporated in the original plans has been scrapped due to increased cost of building the hall.
• Changes to the plans for the new hall have been made on several occasions, but villagers are not informed regularly on what these changes are and how they affect the facilities that will be available once the building is completed.
• Money raised by the village to support the new village hall has all been spent, and with the old hall unsafe, we have nowhere to host fund raising events any more.

OUR PROPOSALS

• To push for completion of the new hall as soon as possible plus full public access
• to changes in policy or design
• To investigate funds for replacement of the tennis court
• To source new equipment and funds to renovate the children's play area
• To approach Sport England for funding for football pitch drainage and a MUGA
• To work with the WEA to attract evening and adult education classes to Grampound
• To run a series of taster courses to establish support for adult education programmes.