"The original Britannia sat in pleasant green surroundings, with a car park, grass & sixty trees. All that greenery has gone. Instead, they demolished it to for 388 luxury flats, in three towers 25, 20 & 10 storeys high."  Pat Turnbull, Hackney

The cost of a new leisure centre is much higher than you might think
  
Read here in full what Pat Turnbull, a resident of Hackney, and member of Save Britannia Leisure Centre Campaign - set up in 2016 to try and save The Britannia - has to say about the new leisure centre that has replaced Hackney's previous Britannia Leisure Centre and decide for yourselves if this is right for Kingston

If you think Kingston Council should not demolish The Kingfisher Leisure Centre and instead repair its roof and reopen it as soon as possible, please sign the petition NOW

Ironically, given all the glossy brochures that have been bandied around about "a new leisure centre" in Kingston, even back in 2017, Pat Turnbull was quoted as saying of Hackney's former Britannia Leisure Centre: 

"When they put out the glossy brochures, they are hoping that everyone will give up, either because they think there is no point or they believe the story they have been told"

We, the residents of Kingston and of London and beyond need to come together now and say we do not believe the stories that our own councils are telling us and that we insist that they tell us the truth and that we are able to influence what happens in our communities and neighbourhoods and our wider Boroughs

We need to Kingston Council and The Mayor of London that enough is enough. Why demolish The Kingfisher to justify and faciitate a massive and unnecessary residential and commercial development on the adjoining Cattle Market site in an area already hugely lacking in green space? 

Why not simply repair The Kingfisher's roof?

A final excerpt from what Pat Turnbull has said about what Hackney Council has done:

"To sweeten the public for this monstrous development, the council took out a huge chunk of the neighbouring Shoreditch Park, creating a dangerous precedent by building on open space, to build a new, very expensive leisure centre. They are coy about the exact cost, while denying reports in the local paper that it is over £300 million."

Please keep sharing this petition and asking your friends, family and everyone you know to sign it now