It’s more than a game
The photo below shows a football game on Daly Way Green between two local youth teams as they battled out a close-fought contest last weekend..jpg)
It was a very different story last Friday night when the visitors, Thames Water, put up yet another dismal display. The performance was wholly unconvincing in front of what has to be said was a passionate home crowd, and their one supporter who bothered to turn up left before the final whistle.
It was the same story in the corresponding fixture last season when they were soundly thrashed by the local side in December 2006. As if that beating wasn’t bad enough, their real low point came at their next away fixture where they were humiliated by a good AVDC Planning Committee side and sent packing with their tails between their legs.
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TW insist there are other storage shafts like this in other parts of the country and I don't disbelieve them. What I find UNBELIEVABLE is that they are ALLOWED to put one under a children's play area in regular use. It can't be right!
They think this is just a bit of green 'wasteland' - it's not! LOOK: kids play football here, they run about and enjoy being kids here.
We MUST make TW and AVDC realise that it is used all the time especially by children and so the health and safety implications (and liabilities) are huge.
It's not just Daly Way - TW is also trying the same trick in Reading, where they want to develop a 150 year old covered reservoir. It's a wildlife haven housing creatures from deer to slow worms and the only green space remaining in the RG1 postcode area.
Maybe individual groups affected by TW's actions should work together? We may be more powerful as a group than we are individually. Count me in.
Meanwhile, you can find out more about the Bath Road Reservoir at savethebathroadreservoir.co.uk.
Lets hope TWU score an "own goal".
Interesting message from T Essery above, take a look and support them, like us they need it.
I for one am fed up with the likes of Thames Water who think they can trample all over us and we will just accept it
It is time to fight back and make ourselves heard
note for t essery
I thought slow worms are a protected species under the wildlife and countryside act.
Is it illegal to disturb their habitat
You should send that photo to sport england info@sportengland.org
and ask for their support and opposition to this dreadful scheme.
They actively encourage this sort of activity and are responsible for the protection of playing fields through their role as a statutory consultee on planning applications that affect playing fields under
SI No 1817 (1996)
Just a thought, nothing ventured nothing gained and everything to lose.
Thanks T Essery for higlighting our campaign in Reading, and thanks guys for putting a link on your website. I see TW are displaying the same utter arrogance with you guys as they are with us - we try to meet them half way but they have so far totally rejected all attempts at compromise.
It is true that if we joined forces we could be more powerful. We plan to turn up to one of the shareholders' meetings - fancy joining us?! ;o)
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