[Cricket] Please sign this, to help save a 125 year old cricket club from developers. PLEASE.

[MJsGhost]

 

[Leighgull]

Done with pleasure.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Done and good luck to all involved.

 

[brighton terra]

Aigburth Cricket and Bowls Club, in South Liverpool, is a completely unremarkable, yet to its members, ever so special, local club. It has been there since 1888, and is absolutely integral to the local community, as a sports club, and as a social hub. For four years in the 90s it was the focal point of my sporting and social life, and the place I met some really great people.

After 125 years in existence, it is now under severe threat - the land was bought 6 years ago (from British Rail) by an Isle of Man based 'investment company', who have now served notice on the club, to leave by November.

Seemingly, the eviction can only be enforced if the developers gain planning permission to build on the land. The club are petitioning Liverpool City Council to block that permission. Liverpool has literally THOUSANDS of empty homes. The very idea of building on an essential community asset, and rare piece of valuable green space, is nothing short of a disgrace.

Please, please add your name to the list of signatories. Thank you all.

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...tm_medium=email&utm_source=signature_receipt#

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/aigburth-cricket-club-liz-mcclarnon-7184694

Have you thought about registering it as an Asset of Community Value?

http://www.parliament.uk/business/p...N06366/localism-act-assets-of-community-value

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Done

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Signed and circulated to members of Speldhurst Cricket Club.

 

[Mowgli37]

Signed, communities need sport.

 

[Razzoo]

Done

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Thanks all. Really grateful.

 

[fat old seagull]

Been there, done that.

 

[Landgull]

DONE too many sports ground disappearing. Good luck.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Signed!

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Signed, didn't seem to have too many signatures, couldn't find the way back in to check.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Signed, didn't seem to have too many signatures, couldn't find the way back in to check.

Thanks everyone.

(Currently has 1,453 of a traget of 2,500 signatures)

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Through the 1500 mark

 

[Lenny Rider]

Done

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Just signed.

 

[Sussex on Leith]

Signed, and shared with the 140-odd members on my club's Facebook group - hope to get some more shares and signatures out of that. (We're also a community club that doesn't own its ground, so it could just as easily happen to us.)

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Done

Thanks

Just signed.

Thanks

Signed, and shared with the 140-odd members on my club's Facebook group - hope to get some more shares and signatures out of that. (We're also a community club that doesn't own its ground, so it could just as easily happen to us.)

Thank you. Excellent work.

As you say -it could happen anywhere, and people really need to take a stand against this kind of shit. CRicket clubs, football clubs, school playing fields - the lot. Build where most sympathetic with the environment / community, not just where its most profitable. Build on brownfield. There's enough of it.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

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