Ha ha Jim - this is music to your ears I bet.

A world class sports hub to be built in Surrey which is also opening up many employment opportunities for sports nuts.   That makes sense to build the facilities attached to Universities where there is already a huge number of  young people given the opportunity to play squash.

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Rita, sorry for delay in reply but I'm just back from holidays.  2 weeks in rural Pembrokeshire in South West Wales.. Very relaxing and we had great weather but I've not played squash for over 2 weeks and am itching to get back on court tomorrow.  It usually goes 2 ways when I've had such a gap - I either play a blinder or crash and burn!  I hope it's the former!

Anyway, I am not surprised to hear that a Council has in effect used a bureacratic technicality  to ensure that more squash courts are lost in the UK.  Local councils these days are under so much pressure to plug budgetary defecits and ensure that council tax increases are kept to a minimum, or councillors will find themselves voted out of office.  It's sad but the economics of squash are stacked against it in such circumstances unfortunately and I am sure that more court closures will follow, that is unless the popularity of the sport dramatically increases over the coming years.

I hope that England Squash is doing all it can to lobby local councils and the government to arrest this worrying trend in court closures.

Cheers

Jimbob

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jimbob - the Councils say they listen to the people.  Once the "fire goes out" they do just as they want and maybe that applies to Somerset. 

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I don't know too much about the regions and boundaries in the UK but it might just be that the pressure put on the authorities has made a difference.. well from this story it sure looks like it.

Somerset County courts saved by people power.

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