Tomorrow this petition will be debated at Full Council of Kingston Council. Every councillor who we have elected to represent has said they will be attending the meeting 

Please come along if you can and please keep sharing the petition. Nearly 3,500 people have now said NO to the planned demolition

You can read here 10 reasons why Kingston council must NOT demolish The Kingfisher Leisure Centre

There will be a lot of political posturing at Full Council tomorrow and we must be wary of attempts to divert attention away from the subject of the petition to Council's "proposals" for a swanky "state of the art" new leisure centre that the council hopes to deliver at vast cost at some time in the future

This petition is about stopping the demolition of our beloved Kingfisher Leisure Centre

Repairing and re-opening The Kingfisher does not depend on the building of massive high-rise tower blocks full of unaffordable apartments on ancient open space of The Cattle Market; it does not depend on the sale of any of The Guildhall buildings for redevelopment also as high-rise towers full of swanky unaffordable apartments on the Hogsmill chalk stream and towering over Clattern Bridge and necessitating moving the Coronation Stone from its current location; it does not depend on hiring private consultants at vast cost or publishing glossy brochures at a similary high cost to try and "sell" what a possible new centre will be like. And it does not depend on an already financially-strapped council, already facing losses on its recent invetsments in a commercial property portfolio, raising at the very, very least £12 million to help fund the vast sums that would be needed to build the kind of replacement facilities that the council has in mind, on a site in a Conservation Area in the heart of Kingston

We were never asked if we wanted the council to demolish The Kingfisher and we were never told that a decision had been made by the council to apply for planning permission to demolish or invited to comment on the application

We found out by accident about the planning application to demolish The Kingfisher and it is time to tell Kingston Council that enough is enough.