Bournemouth Council to Demolish the BCCA
May 18, 2010 by admin
Filed under Charitable Events, Local News
Come along to the next public meeting:
Tuesday 18th May and Tuesday 25th May at 7.30pm in The Green Room, Portman Hotel, Ashley Road, Boscombe
Bournemouth Council have submitted plans to demolish the Boscombe Centre for Community and Arts (BCCA). We are holding 2 public meetings and have invited Council Leaders, Ward Councillors, residents, traders, community groups and local professionals to attend.
The Council’s plans are for an “integrated services hub” built with £2.3 million they received from the Dept. for Children, Schools and Families (DFCS). Will this mean more services for drug addicts and alcoholics and those on probation or not? We simply don’t know because of B’mth Council’s conflicting reports on their own documents, which are in the public realm. Certainly, we don’t want it – and recovering addicts tell us they don’t want it either.
We put forward a business plan to reopen the BCCA with programmes for all the community aimed at curbing anti-social behaviour, increasing health and wellbeing, increasing educational attainment and social inclusion and aiding economic regeneration. Substantial money has been spent on the seafront – we advocate money needs to be invested in Central Boscombe where it is most desperately needed providing something meaningful for the majority of the community.
Our business plan was praised by Bournemouth Council – and it did not rely on any Council funding. Once B’mth Council obtained the £2.3 million and made the unilateral decision to change sites from the one noted on their application form to the BCCA, however, things changed.
We do believe that “safe services” sited at the BCCA together with our programmes could provide the most exciting, positive thing that Boscombe has received for very many years and there is space at the BCCA for both.
Attend our meetings to find out how to object to B’mth Council’s planning application effectively!
