We have been betrayed by the Conservatives at South Kesteven District Council.

The much vaunted 'State of The Art Leisure Centre' has now been cancelled for the foreseeable future with a vague suggestion that a new centre could be built with land donated by Lincolnshire County Council (in Millfield Road) in exchange for permission for Lincolnshire County Council to build housing on a site which has previously been refused. 

Additionally, the existing Leisure Centre will be permanently closed on 1st September 2021, taking away leisure facilities from thousands of residents in The Deepings and surrounding villages, making local people unemployed, destroying the local swim club (which has over 100 members), leaving schoolchildren unable to have swimming lessons and The Deepings School with no examinations hall.

The Deepings has always been bottom of the list for any funding or facilities within South Kesteven and indeed, Lincolnshire but this is a step too far.

We, the residents of The Deepings and surrounding villages demand: 

1. £1.4m is allocated to immediate repairs to the existing building and facilities with a further £600k put aside for ongoing maintenance over the next 4 years.

2. A public contract is agreed to: whereby a new site is found (not Millfield Road) and immediate plans and costs agreed for a new leisure centre to be opened in early 2025 at the latest.

People of The Deepings have been short-changed for too long. It stops NOW!