Back to square one on Moulsham Lodge Centre

11.39.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Tue 31st Jul 2007

Essex County Council are still dithering over the future for Moulsham Lodge Community Centre, despite pressure from the local Lib Dem councillors. In March ECC was going to auction the site, but cancelled this when the meeting with local representatives was arranged for 27th March.

Having heard local people's comments, the then Cabinet member, Cllr. Finch, said we would have his response in six weeks. In just six weeks there was a cabinet reshuffle, and Cllr. Martin took over, and we had to wait another seven for his decision. The decision was to put the site up for auction, so we are right back where we started. He has been told that we do NOT want more houses, a doctor's surgery, a centre for troubled youths etc. we DO want our community centre. We await his response.