Issue - meetings

To provide the Panel with an update on volleyball equipment provision (report of the Assistant Director – Leisure and Culture enclosed).

Consideration was given to the report of the Assistant Director – Leisure and Culture which provided the Panel with an update on volleyball equipment provision.

The report was introduced by the Interim Cultural Services Manager who highlighted the following key points:

• The issue with the volleyball equipment had been identified at the end of March by a club who used the volleyball court at the Peele Leisure Centre on a regular basis.
• Works to repair the court had been quoted as being over £1,000 with a lead-in time of 2 months.
• Parkwood, as the operator, offered alternative options and a discount to the club but this was not taken up.
• Replacement posts for the volleyball court were ordered by Parkwood in line with their company policy and procedure but the delivery date was pushed back.
• Officers worked with Parkwood to find an alternative supplier for the replacements posts and new posts were installed on site in June.
• Upon investigation, it was found that the costs of any repairs to the court would sit with University Academy Long Sutton. Parkwood would be meeting with the Academy and SHDC officers to look at a way forward for repair and maintenance needs.

Members considered the report and made the following comments:

• Members felt a poor service had been delivered by Parkwood in this instance and there was no urgency to repair the court. It was disappointing that it had taken so long to fix the issue.
• Members expressed that the Peele Leisure Centre was a vital facility that needed to be treated seriously as it was the local facility for residents in the eastern part of the district who would otherwise go to Kings Lynn or Wisbech
• Members hoped that the leisure contract would be better enforced in the future and any matter arising would be resolved quickly.

AGREED:

That the current position for the provision of Volleyball equipment at the Peele Leisure Centre be noted.