Article - Fishersgate

This time, it’s for REAL

In 1997 the long established Fishersgate Community Association and the nationally successful Fishersgate Community Sports Club, came together to develop the ambitious Dome Project – a combined Community and Sports Centre designed to provide the space and the facilities to deliver a wide range of services, and leisure and sporting opportunities to the Fishersgate community.

The developer’s law suit against the Trustees and subsequent arson attacks halted the project in 2005. At considerable financial cost to the Association, the court eventually found in favour of the Charity. The insurance claim for the fire damage to the Centre was settled at £144, 038 and paid over to Adur District Council.

Defects in construction mean that the geodesic dome structure cannot be economically completed and will therefore need to be demolished. However, the two surviving wings, the multi use Sports Rink, the Fishersgate Community Wing and the Changing Room Wing can be repaired and completed with a new building linking the two, all affordable within the budget provided by the fire insurance settlement.

Completed this Community and Sports Complex will bring major additional capacity to Fishersgate and, in association and collaboration with the Healthy Living Centre, Children and Family Centre and other exciting new initiatives planned for the area, will provide facilities rare in their range and scope.

The Community and Sports Complex is budgeted to be self-funding.

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Ground Hog Day
Well, for a while, the Council Officers were genuinely interested in coming to an understanding with our community rather than trying to socially engineer the area. The FCA team had a very positive first meeting with the Chief Executive Ian Lowrie; Chief Legal Officer Jeremy Cook; Peter Latham whose close and long involvement with all aspects of the Dome is well known; Nathalie Brahma-Pearl serene in her superiority, plus two councillors sent as observers, We all agreed to hold a series of meetings, split into two strands. The first to explore how we could work together develop the Dome site for the good of the community, the second to put on the table all the issues that had poisoned relations between the Community Association and the Local Authority over the years, and to try to learn the lessons so that future projects could be managed better..

The CRUNCH
This evening March 31 at the Shoreham Civic Centre, the Cabinet will consider the Association’s proposal to repair and complete the Fishersgate Community Centre. Jim Plant, the Association’s surveyor who has produced the plans and development costings, Peter Averillo, the Association’s chair and Ricky Daniel, from the Project Development Committee, will present the Proposal and answer Members’ questions.

This time, it’s for REAL -
The Fishersgate Community Association puts forward exciting new proposals

Where we are -
The project to build a new Community Centre

Together we can make Fishersgate a better place
I am a Trustee of the Fishersgate Community Association. I have been for just over a year. I joined the F.C.A. in the hope that I would be able to help with kick-starting again the good the F.C.A. had previously provided for the community.