| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Golf courses on public land | |
| Posted by: | Mark Evans | |
| Date/Time: | 03/04/24 10:13:00 |
| While affordable access to sports facilities is important it is not clear why you think polo doesn't deserve subsidy and golf does. The council's consultation, which would have tended to overstate the number of people playing golf, shows that local participation is low. I'd argue that, once you extract from that the number of local golfers who might have used Perivale before but are perfectly capable of paying more to play at Ealing, you will be left with a very small number who are priced out of the sport. Like the bowls clubs, the failure to recognise that there was an imperative to broaden participation due to being on public land has ultimately made Perivale vulnerable. |