| Aaron Lawes | | |
| Abigail Herron | | Save our club. Fantastic facilities and atmosphere. |
| Adam Watt | | close david lloyd? I know a lot of people around 16 that go here. Where will they go after this? I thought it was a good thing to get young people off the streets and allow them to exersise. This shouldn't be alowed! |
| Alan Granville Jones | | Most communities need more sports/leisure facilities not fewer. It is a disgrace that such a fabulous venue should be sold off as a building site. The local authority should refuse planning permission for such a criminal change of use - perhaps we ought to petition the planners to stop the scheme getting off the ground. |
| Alan Michael Membury | | Always enjoyed our squash matches at your club I was envious of - I suppose money is the greed as per usual. |
| Alan Rodger Burden | | Ther needs to be a review by the planners and the council as to the loss of sports facilities in the town.
Squash/Racket Ball courts are being lost at an alarming rate.
Littledown,South Dorset,Meyrick,Broadstone and Ferndown have all gone or are going and with the loss of about 17 courts where are we supposed to play.The only place left on a local footing is the West Hants club and with all the displaced plyers looking to relocate it will be difficult to find a place to play.
Whilst it is unlikely the David Lloyd would reopen the club in the event planning for flats was refused the council could still impose a condition on the purchasers to incorporate courts in the new scheme.Does Boscombe need any more flats ?
The council have a duty to consider all requirements and I feel that by placing an obligation on the developer to build in courts it would solve the problem.You would not need the extent of facilities you have now.Showers and changing rooms would be adequate. |
| Alex Booth | | |
| Alex Di Re | | How is the nation meant to keep fit if school playing fields and local amenities are being eaten up by developers without replacement provisions being imposed upon them?! |
| Alex Ratcliffe | | Member since I was 18 months old. Did the parties, learnt to swim and ate my lunch with sister, Mum and Grandma. Badminton classes with Martin and snooker with Dad. Became old enough to begin Gym work, enjoyed it so much my friend Dean joined. Now aged 17, it looks like my memories are going to be bulldozed - unless we stop them!!! |
| Alex Wyett | | Its a fantastic facility that should not be closed. The quality of the courts is rare to find, I wish there were more places like this. A real waste if it gets knocked down. |
| Alexandra Maynard | | |
| Alexandra Maynard | | |
| Alexis Grima | | |
| Alison Mallows | | |
| Alistair Evans | | It will be a great loss to the area. No other club locally offers such a wide range of sporting facilities. Why was'nt the sale of the club offered to the membership first? |
| alvin ranson | | just to agree with all the comments made .we should be building more sports facilities not flats.good luck to martin and the commitee with big thanks |
| Amy Paxton | | There's too many flats already! Encourage exercise! |
| Andrew Davies | | Losing the leading badminton club in dorset would be tragic, and a big step backwards for sport in the area. Ironic to replace a health and sports club with a restaurant eh?! |
| Andrew Emmerson | | I joined this club 17 years ago, it was the best club area then, and it still is now. The comment from DL/Whitbread management that the members can be accomodated at Ringwood is joke, they have no interest in sports & Leisure this area SO the Local Authority should take an interest and protect this club. |
| Andrew Murphy | | To close David Lloyd Bournemouth would be tragic. They have over the past few years been a true driving force for racketball and squash. For a club to close that offers so much not only to its members also to sport across the country to create a few houses is criminal. |
| Andrew Neal | | |
| Andrew Watts | | This is a severe blow to the area, there are six squash teams and two (I believe) racquet ball teams. The loss of these teams to Dorset Squash will be significant, with the closure of other courts the displaced players will be hard to accomodate. How come a country that has world class players and champions treats the grass roots so shabbily. No doubt the flayte will be bought by second homers to boot! |
| Andy Masters | | Having played badminton matches at the DLLC over the past few years, I feel the closure of the venue will be a great loss to the town of Bournemouth. Surely the Council should be encouraging companies to build more leisure centres not close existing ones down? Perhaps we should ask our local councillors what their view on the matter is and vote accordingly on Thursday 3rd May. |
| Andy Statham | | A premier badminton venue with a great atmosphere and acommodating staff |
| Andy Weedon | | I think this is a stupid decision to be made. This government spends 9.3 billion on the olympics that is meant to help sports in this country yet it is closing the sporting facilities that we use. How does this make any sense. Sort it out! why close a quality club? |
| anita gullick | | more housing at the expense of a health and fitness club?One of the most visited in Bournemouth with the best location by the beach.And the very varied age groups and sports abilities it attracts. It has given a lot to the over 60s and now Whitbread say drive 15 mins to Ringwood!Will they provide a bus to getthe OAPs and talented racket juniours to Ringwood on a daily, regular basis? |
| Anja Heijnen | | |
| Ann Hills | | So sorry to hear of the proposed closure and angry that these things can happen so suddenly without consultation.Whitbread/Council/Barratt should be made to put the money towards a new replacement club.This club appeals to all ages. |
| Ann Hyde | | Having been a member for over 20 years, I'm appalled at the prospect of closure. Nowhere else in central B'th offers such superb facilities. Echoing many others, where do the council propose that we exercise? |
| Anne Constable | | Our club must be saved - it is a very valuable asset to the local community. |
| Anne Eyles | | FSB Chairman - Bournemouth.
The closing of the club is just not acceptable we must all fight this. On behalf of the local Community,Members,Businesses & Visitors NO MORE FLATS we are already saturated in Boscombe. Personally we will lose a lot of business at the Hotel as other local accommodation providers will from the various Tournaments and functions that are held there each year.We must win!! |
| Annette Robinson | | What a tragic waste! So where can the children go now - let's take all the fun away and let them hang round street corners instead of playing sport. I am disgusted by that decision. |
| Anthony Price | | The gym offers a vital service to the surrounding community. More flats are just what the area doesn't need. |
| b keating. | | whitbreads need to be convinced that the most profitable course of action open to them is to keep the club open on 26th june to allow a membership buyout as the proposed deal with the barrett group will fail at the planning stage. |
| Barrie Mayes | | After many years of suffering a down-at-heels reputation, Boscombe is showing positive signs of regeneration. What the populace of a vibrant new town want is more quality facilities to attract desirable residents and visitors. If the planning authorities permit change of use of the David Lloyd facility they would damage the future of Boscombe. David Lloyd is not just a sports club, it is, like a village hall, a meeting place where like-minded members of the community can get together helping to create a community spirit. |
| Ben Aldington | | It would be against the interests of local residents to rid the area of its only remaining indoor sports facility when there are ever increasing numbers of youths unable to occupy their time with anything meaningful and character building that this sports facility could go on to provide. To replace it with more blocks of flats that will only exagerate the problem in an area of little infrastructure and high unemployment/recovering addicts etc. would be an irreversable mistake. |
| Ben Mynors-Wallis | | |
| Bettina Harvey | | A fabulous facility that has hosted some great racket competitions! |
| Bev Vatcher | | Keep David Lloyd open. Lots of national tournaments held in Bournemouth. |
| Bob Cringle | | Its great to see so many people joining the drive to save this club - there needs to be an increase in sports facilities in this town not a reduction. This club provides the best squash and badmington facilities in the County and everything possible should be done to save it. |
| Bob Williams | | Great junior tournaments each year and great club. Don't be greedy! |
| Brian Allen | | I am a member of Ringwood D.L.C. but play badminton twice a week in Bournemouth, because the faclities,and the members are first class. I appeal to Bournemouth council not to allow this development to only please around 60/100 flat dwellers, compared to 2,000 keep fit club members! |
| Brian Burch | | Given the council has behaved so badly about closing its own squash facilities over the years, it ought to try harder to preserve the few remaining fee-paying facilities. Can't they simply refuse to re-zone the site and require it to remain a sports club? |
| Brian Newcombe | | |
| Bruce Martin | | Yet another ill thought out scheme! Even with the current media focus on health and fitness in general, i am not surprised that the council put greed before the health of the community as a whole. I fully support the action to re-open this club, and fingers crossed it will suceed! |
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| Carl Crossfield | | |
| Carl Jennings | | I play in the Bournemouth Open Badminton Tournament each year. Although it is a long way to travel, I make the effort because it is such a top facility which makes for an enjoyable day out. I'm sure that the local community must really appreciate such a great place to stay fit and socialise. Please don't close it! |
| Carl Michalski | | Great club, excellent facilities, helpful and friendly staff, super location, fairly unique really. Who in their right mind would want to demolish it and destroy all that it stands for. |
| Caroline Holmes | | Although not a member my daughter plays squash tournaments here and it is another black day for squash. Her club, South Dorset, is also closing within two months to make way for housing. It will not be long before there are no facilities for youngsters and this is called progress! |
| Caroline Lockyer | | All they bark on about at local and national government is the level of obesity.....
I dont feel the council are being very responsible by allowing this to go ahead; they should have been more proactive and organised another sports club in the area, one in the pipeline to coincide with this closing....what about the IMAX site as all it has done is sit there blocking a view....it's in the centre of town, plenty of parking so the infrastructure is already set up pretty much.....come on.........!!!! |
| Charlie Campbell | | UNBELIEVABLE! TRAGIC! i thought that we as a nation were trying to fight obesity and this lazy computer age. Squash is turning into an endangered spicies, can we please build one in a zoo! |
| Charlotte Moore | | |
| Chebil | | It was the only fitness club with swimming pool facilities in the Town Center. this is not fair for the people who do not have car how can we now enjoyed a place with such facilities in the town center, 5 min from the beach!! You push us to use car and go outside, more pollution and hassle to stay healthy!! |
| Chris Bowry | | |
| Chris Miles | | A classic example of a national capitalist company destroying all before it in the name of shareholder greed. Been a member of Bournemouths best allround facility for 14 years now. Sell it to another sports club or to the members so we can keep this great social and sporting facility running. Don't sell it to developers you shameless sellouts. |
| chris sherman | | im not member at the of the club but i a ull time squah play that does tournements all over england and this club bar far is the best sqaush club that is on the tour and it wold be a realy big shame to turn it into FLATS!!! |
| Chris Turner | | It seems very strange to me that the council will allow a run down antiquated place like Poole Sports Center to continue running at a loss whilst encouraging an up to date, modern leisure center to be sold off for developement. |
| Clodie Neaves | | A great shame for the community and for sport in general. |
| Craig - visitor | | |
| Damian Garner | | |
| Daniel Chamberlain | | |
| Daniel Reid | | Replacing such excellent sporting facilities within Bournemouth, would be such a great challenge, it makes no sense to lose what we have for a few flats that will only benefit developers! |
| Darren Wimbleton (and family) | | We have enjoyed family membership of the club for about a year now, although we have connections with the facility dating back to the 70s. We agree with many of the comments made above. What a tragedy should the club close. In these days when community is so undervalued we need to fight to safeguard every positive influence - David Lloyd BMTH is outstanding in this respect. Are we just a commodity to be traded in at an economic whim?? Shame on you Whitbread! |
| Dave Nolan | | To lose a facility like this is insane.Not only is this sending the wrong message out, that sports facilities are no longer important(with obesity on the rise!)but the development of youth will also suffer. Think about it! |
| David Boyd | | I have been with David Lloyd for 7yrs at Brooklands, Weybridge. I've just moved to Parkstone and use you're club. Well done on what you are trying to achieve and I hope you get a RESULT. |
| David Estridge | | D L Bournemouth is a fantastic club but best of all are the members. It would be a sad loss to split up such a great bunch of people. |
| david kane | | i played a badminton tournament there one week.i loved the facilities and it seemed to be set up really well. |
| David Kendrick | | Save the club and the facilities for the Boscombe Community. We don't want another block of flats. |
| David Retter | | This is a shocking waste of a first rate squash and fitness facility. The Bournemouth Open junior squash tournament has is recognised as one of the best on the southern circuit attracting juniors from all parts of the country. Should the club close this tournament will be sorely missed by aspiring junior squash players |
| David S Waugh | | It is difficult reconcile the demolition of such a valuable and long standing sporting venue with the governments declared aim of improving fitness levels & fighting obesity generally within the UK population.
The club is in perfectly good condition and includes a host of suberb sporting facilities. The loss of the club will be extremely detrimental to the town, particularly to those who live on the east side of Bournemouth & who live some distance away from other suitable sports clubs such as West Hants & Bournemouth Sports.
The closure of DLB also coincides with the loss of Dorset Squash club in Poole which is also to be lost to new housing.
There are other potential building plots in/around Bournemouth town centre which could / are being used for residential development which would not result in the loss of such a valuable and well used sports club. |
| David Shepherd | | I joined for the squash courts and the great squash teams/league organisation (Dorset champions last year). I only have a bicycle and now I will find it difficult to find a place to play squash. I loved the range of things to do as well such as snooker, badmington, swimming and sauna etc all in one place local to me. I have looked around and playing squash will be very difficult for me now which is a shame as it is my favourite sport and helps to keep me fit and healthy. |
| David Smith | | This Council should think more of its community instead of lining the pockets of developers. |
| Debbie Robinson | | I have been a member of the club since the age of 11, and also worked there for 3 years. It is a great shame to see that the club is due to close in June, it is not just a sports club but a social club and there is no other club like it in the area. To see it close would be a huge loss to the community. There are already too many flats in Boscombe and with the growing concerns of the high levels of obesity in Britain, why close yet another health club and turn it into a block of flats? The committee are doing a great job and I support the fight to keep the club running. |
| DEBBIE STENT | | This club forms a vital part of many people's lives, young and old, and cannot be replaced by 68 flats! There is no other place like it in the area and it is unthinkable that friends and families will be forced to split up. We need more amenities like this, not less. SAVE OUR CLUB! |
| Derek Morris | | I learnt to swim in the pool here in 1949.I've been a member of this club since David Lanz opened the club, watched it grow and prosper. It is a much needed facility which could still provide a wonderful venue for sports and friendship. |
| Doreen Peek | | |
| Dot and Harold Chadwick | | We will be heart broken to loose our sports club and our friends. We add our support to any members moves including members buy out. |
| eddy bialek | | good luck |
| Elizabeth Brindle | | |
| eunice de vere thorne | | |
| Fiona Slabbekoorn | | There is no sensible reason for this club to close. |
| Francesca Marascalchi | | There are people that have been members for over 20yrs and is part of their socail life. And what about the kids that are taking up racket games, where are they supposed to go? Please dont build flats just to fill peoples pockest, think of the community . |
| Françoise Haylock | | No other leisure centre offers the same variety of sport in Bournemouth. |
| Frank Adams | | Have been a member @ D.Lloyd Club for over 35 years playing originally Squash & now Badminton.Facilities at other clubs are nowhere near as good.My daughter & grandchildren are also Members of this club,we are all keeping our fingers crossed hoping the Club can keep going!! |
| Gareth Wilson | | |
| Gary Biles | | With the closure of the South Dorset club for similar reasons, i.e. lining the pockets of property developers and people able to buy second homes for speculative reasons, the closing of DLB will have a major impact on Squash in Dorset. Additionally this will remove yet another sporting facility at a time when we need them more than ever. Gary Biles Dorset Squash League Coordinator |
| Gary Sherman | | we have been coming to David Lloyd club for the Bournmouth squash open for the last 4 years brining bring much needed custom to the club & local hotels. Such a great shame for short term profit!!! |
| Gary Watt | | For Whitbread to close this important local facility without any discussion with members some who have been members for many years’ just shows what a sad stated life in Britain has become. Every thing is driven by money no wonder we are no longer a force in the world of sport. |
| Geoff & Sandra Simmonds | | |
| Geoff O'Neill | | While I understand the need for good housing in the area this can not be at the expense of sport and leisure facilities. The loss of DLB will be a serious blow for the area and in terms of my sport squash, it will be a loss affecting the whole of Dorset. Good luck with the campaign to save it. |
| Gerald Richman | | At the time when the government has now recognised that obesity is a bigger killer than binge drinking a vital facility like the David LLoyd Fitness Club is being sold off for yet another flat development. |
| Geraldine Wood | | |
| Gill Hall | | The David Lloyd club in Bournemouth offers excellent facilites. What a great shame that profit from property development may take priority over provision of an excellent facility to the community and visitors to Bournemouth; particularly at a time when, with the 2012 Olympics, Britain has a great opportunity to promote sport and exercise and set the standard for sports facilities. |
| Graeme Harper | | Second local sports club sold off for residential develoment in as many months. Good to see that a company like David Lloyd Leisure is SO LOYAL to its faithful members after so many years of support....... |
| Graham Bishop | | |
| Graham Filmer | | We shall need more flats in order to bring in more council tax to pay for health treatment for obese people who cannot find a gym! |
| Graham Millward | | Still can't believe this is really going to happen! Its not just losing all the facillities (which no other club around can offer)but its breaking all the contacts and not seeing friends! Its been like a second home to so many members. Totally gutted. |
| Graham Morton | | Great shame to see such an active club disappear |
| Graham William Robinson | | Ex member of DL Bournemouth. Debbie Robinson's dad. |
| Gregory Spawton | | David Llloyd Bournemouth brings huge benefits to the local community. It attracts a wide and diverse group of people of all ages and ethnicities. It gives young people an outlet for fitness and sporting activities and is an important local facility for elderly people and families.
In the last few years, the club has become a centre of excellence for badminton. It has the best courts and coaching set up in Dorset. Due to the hard work of members and coaches, a number of juniors have world class potential and are being selected for England.
The closure of the club will be a significant loss to the town. |
| Guy Bowdler | | This is a big blow to the badminton community, not to mention the other sports the club hosts. Good luck trying to keep the club open, we'd all miss playing matches and tournaments there. |
| HAMZA AHMAD | | Basically,i aam an international squash player from Pakistan.I really shouked to hear that a beautiful club will change into flats.I have spent 4 great days of my life in this club for playing a junior squash tournment.And i can say it without any doubt that if this club would be in Pakistan it is conform that it would be no 1 club in Pakistan. |
| Heath Flicos | | This is the best Badminton Facility in Dorset, providing excellent coaching staff. There is no where else in the county that we can get this quality of Badminton. This should continue to exist as a venue for sporting excellence. |
| heidi brown | | we and many of my friends from the club rely on the raquetsport facillities as they the only decent ones in the area. PLEASE do not close it . its too good and to nice a place to be to go. |
| Howard Wortley | | Times move on and the club has been poorly managed by DL as a leisure facility hence the sale. Running it as a creche + summer hangout for students has not been too bright an idea either. If it had remained an independent club this never would have happened. The obvious options are (a) the members buy the club - big rise in subs (b) the council insist on integrating club/flats which is perfectly possible even if the club shut during works. This would make the flats more desirable with club pool etc as well. Given total lack of vision usual with the council and lack of realism from members not very likely. (a)+(b) also possible of course. Shame :-( but who is prepared to put their chips on the table? |
| Ian Chislett-Bruce | | Having been a member of both Arnewood, New Milton and Milford Squash teams I have played many team matches at DLB under the current and previous owners. The potential loss of such a prestigious sporting venue is likely to have wide reaching consequences for the sporting teams at the club and the associations that represent their sport. With the drive to get more people involved in sport I hope the local planning committee will see the devastating affect the closure of DLB will have in the efforts being made locally and nationally to reduce the incidents of obesity. DLB has many junior members who will be the life blood to the sporting associations in the future. Without new, younger players many sports, including squash will not survive. I wish the campaign committee and all the members of DLB every success in fighting this shortsighted decision. |
| Ian Honeyman | | Completely ridiculous idea. Why take away something that so many people enjoy for the sake of cramming in as many people as possible. It can be busy enough with members parking up so surely a building containing alot more people will only increase congestion and annoy everyone one else locally?!?! |
| Ian Ross | | |
| Isobel Kelleher | | The club is an extremely important resource for the local area and everything must be done to keep it running. |
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| James Bennett | | The only place i can go to use a top quality gym play squash and or badminton and then chill out in the Pool / jacuzzi after totally gutted its closing. I also think we need to consider the people who will lose not only a club but their jobs too. |
| James Clark | | just what Boscombe needs, another block of flats - No I dont think so. Boscombe has lost too many other facilities over recent years, it would be CRIMINAL and NEGLIGENT to loose more! |
| JAmes Dean | | I live very locally to this club. There's nothing like it locally. Needs to be kept! |
| James Elkin | | When health is such an important part of the Governments objectives, how can closing down a great facility like this be allowed? |
| James Jackson | | |
| Janet Biles | | |
| Janet Biles | | |
| Janet Biles | | I am the junior team manager and newly appointed development officer for dorset squash.I have now over 150 juniors players wanting to play squash. with this facility closing we will lose junior players and a great venue. The short sightedness of the council to allow this to happen is criminal. With all the news papers and TV trying to promote more activity for children this sporting facility is needed. I am promoting squash across the county by taking 'mini
sqaush' into the schools but I need clubs for the children to go into, with the closeure of this club dorset will have lost 15 courts. I feel very upset by losing any sporting facitllity as it will deprive many, some will probable never play again. |
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| Jason Pietruszka | | I've grown up with this club, and it has by far the best facilities within the area. Will be such a loss |
| Jeff & Natasha Lester | | I am a property developer and I am amazed that Barratts have purchased the site without planning permission. Has any body checked the land registry?
I would be equally amazed if the the local authority granted permission that would take away this vital community health centre
David Lloyd should be made to keep it going or sell it as a going concern |
| Jeff Gibson | | I find it very disappointing that such a worthwhile facility that concentrates on sport and recreation should be sacrificed for yet more over-priced flats in an ocean of similar flats. Who will miss the flats - Barratts. Who will miss the sports facilities - a sizeable proportion of Bournemouth residents. |
| Jenny Buckley | | David Lloyd is really going down hill as a company. To remove such a good facility is crazy. How are we meant to be tackling obesity if this is what our leading health clubs do!? |
| Jenny Hawkyard | | It would be tragic to lose such a good badminton venue...and how can cramming in more flats and providing less leisure facilities going to benefit anyone except the council's wallet?? Shame. |
| Jenny Matthews | | There is no other sports centre in Bournemouth with the same facilities that is a private club. It would be a shame if this community club is to shut. |
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| Jez Church | | Boscombe has few assets beyond its beach. The club provides an important social centre for the area.
The government are trying to encourage us all to take up more exercise, closing a club of more than 2,000 members when there is no suitable alternative is hiprocrasy.
We do not need more flats in the area, we do need assets such as this club. |
| Jim O'Dwyer | | I think that turning the Club into flats is the wrong thing to do - the Club is too important an amenity!
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| Jo Barnett | | |
| Jo Hill | | |
| Joanne Mitchell | | |
| Jodie Cave | | It's such a shame to lose a fantastic club just for flats. There are enough flats already in the area. |
| John Baunton | | having been a club member for 20 years,not only will we all miss the loss of excellent facilities of the top racket club locally, but also the friendship and cameraderie of friends/fellow members built up over a long period.For many people it was the main platform of their social sphere and will now be lost! |
| John Clark | | A tragic loss! I trust that the undersigned will now boycott all Whitbread establishments forthwith. These include Premier Travel Inn, Brewers Fayre, Beefeater and Costa. A greedy company! |
| John Coates | | Ripping apart the fabric of peoples lives - especially the promising youngsters and loyal older generation. This is a Health Club operating with a strong demand in a profitable environment with a unique mix of facilities and potential in the area.
I wonder if the Chief Executive of Whitbread has completed an assessment of the social damage he intends to inflict on his members....or if he cares....We shall see. |
| John Fallows | | We have been coming to Bournemouth for the last 4 years for the squash tournament, we live in the east end of London and we really look foward to it, not only for the squash we make the most of the weekend to stay in a nice hotel and enjoy the lovely area.Please dont take it away from us John Sharon, and Richie FALLOWS.
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| John Ratcliffe | | In my view, The Club never really fitted the David Lloyd/Whitbread portfolio, so we were ditched with a done deal. Well it doesn't always work like that. The Council now has simple decision to make: yet more flats or a vibrant sports and social facility dearly loved by its members? |
| John Robert Atkins | | Yet again Commercial gain takes precendence over the needs of the community.
This facility provides health and fitness for all ages creeds and cultures. It provides a community spirit and develops our sports men and women for the future. It teaches discipline and commoradary to those who had none. It keeps our teenagers off the street and gives them a purpose, and an alternative to street corners. It allows us to Network with others to compete and enjoy sport to it`s full. A social gathering, a place to meet old friends and new, so much good, so what shall we do ??lets close it and build flats, I don`t think so. Let`s buy the club and preserve for all, shame on the government, shame on the local coucil, shame on the David Lloyd group. |
| John Ryall | | ARGGGGG!!!!
Why close david lloyd, this is one of the most annoying things ever.
I dont know what ill be doing if it closes down, its my home away from home:(
I hope that we can get David Lloyd to stay open, i will help with anything that needs doing. |
| Jon Ball | | I have been coming to the David Lloyd for many years and have enjoyed the tournament as a spectator. We all need recreation facilities like this. Leave it alone. |
| Jonathan Long | | |
| Jonathan Osborne | | |
| Jonathan Porter | | I support the action group fully with their idea of a member buy-out!
I live in Boscombe and we certainly do not need more flats!!
The club is a stone's throw from the seafront and should be a great asset for Boscombe and it's regeneration.
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| jonny evans | | |
| Josh Thomas | | by closing this club you close the lifes of hundreds of loyal members and stop the dreams of many athletes! |
| Josh Thomas | | you cant do this to Martin and Graham!!!!!!! |
| Judith Hallpike | | The proposed closure is a tragedy for Bournemouth, not just the members. I learnt to swim here in the 1950s when it was still a hotel! My children learnt swimming and badminton here and to have these excellent facilities destroyed for yet more flats is madness. |
| Judith Ryan | | It is tragic that such a wonderful sporting venue could close, where do all our young people now train? |
| Julia Holland | | |
| Julie Reeves | | David Lloyd has provided me not just with the enjoyment of playing badminton within a club, but of making some fabulous friends. My life would be very much poorer if David Lloyd had never existed - and now it looks as if it will cease to exist in Bournemouth! Terrible! |
| Justin Gerrard | | What a waste of a great facility, there must be somewhere else to build flats. |
| Karen Garcia | | I support all action to save the club- it is tragic that we are going to lose these great racquet facilities in Bournemouth in a club with a unique atmosphere that plays such an important part in the lives of so many local people. |
| Karen Platt | | |
| karol riva | | i would like to lend support to the idea to lobby whitbreads to keep the club open on 26th june to facilitate a membership buyout. |
| Karsten Hansen | | |
| Karsten Hansen | | There is already a surplus of flats in the area, but where are the sport facilities? |
| Katherine Cooper | | This is one of the nicest sports club that I play at, the facilities are perfect for badminton and the staff are very accommodating. What a loss this would be for this sports club to go. |
| Katrina McLean | | As a so called nation of faties how can the powers that be allow such a popular and well loved, and used, health club be knocked down by greedy fat cat developers. What is happening to our town and why is the council so short sighted that it is proposing to let this happen? These developers need to be stopped now. To a great many members, particulary the older ones the Club is like an extended family and going there keeps them happy and healthy and away from the doctors surgery. Where will they go when it's closed of to the doctor for some prozac. |
| Kay Corbett | | |
| keith chambers | | its bad for the members and bad for the community |
| Keith Smith | | The David Lloyd club provides great sporting facilities to loacl people. |
| kelly | | A ridiculous idea for a place that is packed out with badminton and squash players, especially when there are no other facilities like it in the county. |
| Ken Male | | Everyone must help to convince the council that planning permission should not be allowed to build flats and lose this sports and leisure facility. |
| Kerry Belba | | |
| Kevin Gunputh | | Looked at all the other gym in the area and really enjoy the David Lloyd (Bournemouth) community. |
| Kevin Mackay | | This would be a terrible loss. It's not just members of DL Bournemouth who lose out, but members of other David Lloyd clubs (like myself) who use the facility, as well as a large number of visitors. This cannot be allowed to happen. |
| Kevin McGonnigle | | This cannot be allowed to proceed. I have played at David Lloyds Bournemouth over a period of 15 years in various social and tournament matches. This incessant land grab for commercial gain should be halted as it is a large number of local residents that will pay a heavy price if they lose this fantastic facility whilst a very few line their pockets at their expense.
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| Kirsty Main | | |
| Laura Burch | | As a fellow Dorset squash player I was upset to hear about the closure of David Llyod Bournemouth. We have already lost 4 squash courts at South Dorset and the loss of the 5 DLB courts will be devastating to the state of Dorset squash.Our sport can not afford to loose any further courts because we won't be able to support the teams that we have which will be a shame. Please don't close it. |
| Laurence Peake | | I have had terrible trouble getting badminton court time during the day. The facility provides a much needed court space that can be used during the day time. In the main most municipal leisure centres combine with education departments that have the use during the day. Only in the evenings after school are they available or early mornings. This means we have to book courts at 6:30 am before schools start or later on. But the evenings are difficult as senior clubs book most of the courts. These privately run clubs provide a flexible addition for sports persons to access. We use the David Lloyd club in Heston in the same way. Removing these clubs and thinking municipal sports centres will replace them is not the case at all. |
| Lee O'Donnell | | This Club is not just an asset for Bournemouth but for the whole of the region... a great venue for competitions with excellent facilities. My family has always received a warm welcome on every visit. It must stay open!! |
| Leonor Magor | | |
| Lesley Cringle | | |
| Lesley Lock | | I give my backing to the committee to save the David Lloyd club being sold off to develope yet MORE flats for Boscombe |
| Liam (saus) Cordery | | The best Badminton Facility in Dorset with a History of producing world-class players. Money should be invested not withdrawn!! Also providing excellent squash, fitness and social facilities and superb coaching staff, this should continue to exist as a venue for sporting excellence. |
| Linda Anne McKechnie | | What a waste to lost DLB - excellent all round facilities. The squash courts are well supported by older players and, more importantly, by many keen youngsters. I understand that the badminton played here is also to a very high standard. So where will all these players go? Obviously the squash players will not be going to South Dorset (another great loss). Will the Local Authority help to create more sporting venues? Give back what is being taken away? Keep the youngsters interested in sport? I think not. |
| Lindsay Dominey | | The club has the best squash and badminton facilities in the area. The government goes on about the health of the nation, obesity etc so why do they keep taking away more and more sporting facilities to make way for more homes??? Bournemouth already has too many flats available for sale, we don't need any more. |
| Lindsey Dack | | Do you really need more flats in Bournemouth? Too many sports facilities being closed down. Keep it open!!! |
| Lisa Redfern | | |
| Liz Faherty | | Am devastated, firstly at the loss of a great community facility, but also at the prospect of yet MORE flats being built. We just don't need More flats, we need a facility such as the David Lloyd leisure club. Why has this been allowed to happen. More devastation for the area!!!!!!!!! |
| Liz Hussell | | This is a ridiculous situation - I thought the aim was for a healthier country. |
| Lorna - visitor | | Please please do not deny adults and children facilities to improve their health |
| Lorna Barnett | | We have been members of this club for fifteen years, and feel most distressed that the proposals are to close our club in favour of more flats. Boscombe is becoming overrun with flats, and has very little to offer in line with the facilities provided by the David Lloyd club. I believe it has to be proven that there is no desire for recreational facilities to enable the land to be changes from recreational to residential - as this website proves, there certainly is still huge support for this to remain a fitness club. The committee will have my full support and backing to keep this club open - hopefully not under the Whitbread logo! |
| Malcolm Barnes | | This has got to be stopped,it is wrong to take away this facility for yet another block of flats! |
| Margaret Ashworth | | i visited the club for the first time on may 26 for a squash tournament and was instantly impressed by the friendly atmosphere, very different from most private sports clubs. I was then horrified to hear of the plans to demolish the club. it is a very valuable resource and more than that, a genuine community. please let me know if there is anything i can do from this distance to help. |
| Margaret Davison | | It will be a failure on the part of Bournemouth Planning Dept to allow the change of use to residential and for this area of Bournemouth to lose a much need leisure facility Surely there are other sites within the Boscombe/Bournemouth area that could be used for development. Within the next few years there will be a greater need for leisure facilities as more and more people think "fitness & health" |
| marie davey | | |
| Marilyn Keen | | |
| Mark Ashton | | David Lloyd is a fantastic venue for badminton and I have had great fun playing there. It would be such a shame to shut it down!! |
| Mark Bennett | | This is a great shame for the best club in Dorset - it has some of the best racket sports people in the county as members / staff. It would be nice to see the owners take a moral stand and not follow the quickest £ for a change... (Club badminton player ranked 23rd in my office) |
| Mark Every | | Loosing the club will be a severe blow to the local community and will result in the loss of a very well run, club which provides an excellent, non flustered environment to enjoy exercise and relaxation. There is nowhere else locally with the same atmosphere, and this is a precious gem to preserve. it should certainly not be closed, and it is a shame members were not approached before the suggested sale of the buildings occurred. it would be very short sighted if this wonderful and important facility was lost |
| Mark Hames | | I am amazed that with all of the focus on Obesity at the moment, this is another prime example of people not caring about the state of the country's health vs lining their pockets. Without the variety of training the Bournemouth club offers, a lot of people, old and young, will suffer. |
| mark hurd | | This club cannot be allowed to close, it is one of the few racket clubs that consistently produces players at junior level and has been a big part in racket sports history in the town .i fully support a membership buy out schemme |
| Mark James | | International Badminton Player
Ranked Top 200 (World) |
| Mark Knolles | | Losing the facilities at DL will be a major blow to the community and i just hope that Bournemouth Council intervene to STOP what in my mind is unjust to the many thousands of people who have used the club over such a long period. Why, Why, Why did Whitbread not look to offer the club up for sale as a going concern to the many members who love spending time at DL? the answer is simple 'Money' and no respect or thought to what the existing members would do. I just hope that for once Bournemouth Council does intervene - but as much as i hope ....i am not holding my breath!! |
| Mark R Burgess | | |
| martin david vickers | | this is a massive blow to our community! we don't need anymore flats in the area possibly going to second home owners!there isn't another club that can replace the friendly atmosphere of people keeping fit in this age of obesity than David Lloyd. Please save our club to save our community! |
| Martin Foot | | Closing the club will be tragic for squash in Dorset. David Lloyd has some of the best junior squash coaching and facilities in the county. This has been recognised by England Squash who have awarded them the highest accreditation in Dorset.
The Futures NOT Bright, the Futures Black! |
| martin leyton | | |
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| Martin Phillips | | My son & I have enjoyed years of squash tournaments here. Disgraceful to own & run a sports centre when all that counts is mega profit - what a message from Whitbreads to a country about to host the Olympic games! |
| Martin watts | | |
| Martin White | | |
| Martyn Jenkins | | Another blow to local services. Please don't let the community loose yet another positive past time. |
| Mathew Town | | Having been a member for 2 years i am perplexed with a capital P and totally miffed off at the thought of the club closing.
My male partner and I have built up some very close relationships with other members at the club which in our case is very difficult to do in such a homophobic Society. The David Lloyd gym has been a very a strong source of support for us. we wish it all the best... |
| Matt Stones | | |
| Matthew Guy | | At a time when Boscombe, one of the most deprived areas in the conurbation, is the subject of a desperately needed long term development project, I find it staggering that the council can seriously be considering allowing this much loved, and essential, local amenity to be bulldozed, to be replaced by yet more flats. Boscombe is slowly being turned into one big block of flats and I find it particularly insulting that the developer should feel confident enough to go public with these plans, upsetting countless local people, without having yet even secured planning permission, or have they? (wink,wink) |
| Matthew Holland | | As a long standing memeber, I can't see the logic of closing a sports facility that is well used to build more flats. |
| Maxine Bennett | | been a member for many years, also my 9 year old son. will be tragic for the community if the club shuts. Everyone very upset about it |
| Michael Edwards-Bate | | I have been a member of DL for a relatively short period but find it to be a friendly enjoyable place to visit. Th council should consider whether the community of Boscombe is better served by a Health/Fitness Club or by building yet more flats, before they approve this development. Good Luck with keeping DL. |
| Michael Tatton-Bennett | | I believe that this club is unique with its variety of activities on offer under one roof. The social contact and friendships made through sport(e.g. badminton, swimming and snooker)should NOT be lost just because Whitbread's do not want to run the Club.ALL members should rally and fight the planning application. Who knows what the power of the people can achieve??? |
| Mike Ayling | | After nearly 20 years as a member of the club, I will be lost without it. It's a tragedy that such a fantastic facility and community is to be destroyed by yet more, unwanted, flats. I wholeheartedly support the Action Group in its endeavours to save the club for the future. |
| Mike Cox | | Another ridiculous decision by people putting profit before people. |
| Mike Hawkyard | | It's this simple in Bournemouth. Tennis = West Hants, Golf / Gym = Meryick Park, Badminton = David Lloyd. Please don't knock it down as my golf and tennis suck. |
| mike williams | | keep it open!!!
good luck |
| Miranda Lloyd | | This club has a longstanding successful history, despite changes between private & corporate management.It holds alot of memories of family & friends for many, and offers local residents/community ongoing opportunities for social & sporting events. Keep on fighting! |
| Mohamed S Ladha | | PLC's versus fantastic sports facility/community, money talks not feelings - great shame if the local council approve planning. |
| Monique Miller | | Save the club..Its not fair on the older members that do not have any other form of transport other than walking!! |
| Mr Daniel Thomas Brett III | | There is no where else locally with such excellent facilities as a private club. With so many top quality badminton and squash players training at the club it will have a detrimental effect on dorset squash/badminton, not to mention all the gym/swim/leisure members who will also lose out. |
| Mr Kevin McGonnigle | | This development should not be allowed to procede as it has closed a vibrant hub of the community for local residents and visitors alike. How in this era we are actively allowing closure of sports/health facilities when the levels of obesity and inactivity amongst the population is soaring beggars belief. |
| Mr Paul Eyles | | This is a vital facility in this town and for the surrounding area. We DO need our sports centre for many many good reasons but we DO NOT want any more flats, especially as many are sold as weekend & Holiday apartments which brings NO or LITTLE revenue to the area.Enough is enough here in this area of Bournemouth. |
| mrs s keating | | hoping some other leisure company perhaps ESPORTA can step in before the club closes and buy it back.comeon ESPORTA this is a wonderful opportunity for you.! |
| Muriel Thorne | | Ithink my last support message lost in ether, so ,to repeat--Having beena David Lloyd member for 22 years and a user of the Linden Hall swimming pool for many years previously,I am extremely saddened at the thought of this closure of what has been, to me, a lifeline. |
| Neil Carrington | | |
| Neil Chambers | | Heart breaking news. A club which has been a 2nd home and provided me with a profession in squash. A step in the wrong direction for the adults and youth of bournemouth. |
| neill miles | | i agree with the rest of members. although i only use the gym, i understand the ramifications of the clubs involved , and fully support any action taken against david lloyd plc, for putting money above all else |
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| Nick Jeffery | | After 15 years of club membership I will support any action to keep the club open. |
| Nick Tidiman | | Is it too much to expect our council to stop merely seeing increased council tax revenue from the proliferation of residential developments and actually take an interest in their electorate and fight for the retention of facilities such as DLB? |
| Nicola Cerfontyne | | |
| Noreen Tacon | | Visited David Lloyd Bournemouth on a squash tournament at the end of May last year and was well impressed with the organisation of the squash tournament. |
| Ollie Baczala | | I have my England Badminton training here 4 days a week with my England Coach Graham Hurrell.Both my uncles are on the walls for winning squash tournaments in the 80s!! What a great shame to lose this this great club. |
| oranong bialek | | good luck |
| Oscar Gonzalez | | Boscombe doesn't need more flats! Keep the best leisure facility in town open! |
| Pat Dean | | |
| Pat Williams | | |
| Paul Bishop | | It is an absolute shame that we might lose our club. We need to convice the council that we must keep the facilities and convice Whitbread that this club can be a profitable business. |
| paul david lofthouse | | Why is the club closing ?
Do the owners feel they have no responsibility to the club members ?
Is the club failing to produce the revenue the suits demand ?
If I was a member of David Lloyd Bournemouth I wouldn't consider joining another David Lloyd club ever! Totally cynic and reprehensible profittering well done David Lloyd great PR move. |
| Paul Martin | | I have played squash on the Bournemouth area for the last 20 years and thoughout that time the Bournemouth club in its various guises was an important hub for my sport. Over the last 10 years a number of clubs have closed down making those remaining ever more precious to our still vibrant sport. I am a member of DL and look forward to Saturday afternoon squash and the regular competitions. It would be a tragedy for this location to be replaced by flats which are already in over supply. |
| Paul Venables | | Joined the club about four years ago and have made great friends with large number of other members.My 4 year old son also enjoys all the facilities and we were looking at playing all the sports on offer as time went by, now where do we go that offers such great facilities. DL claims to be the UK largest rackets club with 85 squash courts-closing Bournemouth is over 5% of that amount. Perhaps their advertising only applies if they make money.
A heartless PLC who are out for a quick buck !! There should be more health clubs and municipal facilities being opened not closed- obesity here we all come !! |
| Paul Withrington | | I have travelled up from kent to play at the amazing facility, it is one of the best i have played in, and the idea of disadvantaging the health and fitness of the local community in exchange for "yet more houses" seems ridiculous.... I hope the campaign is successful, please contact me if i can help further. Paul Withrington |
| Paula Cray | | |
| penny & colin winship | | Having been members since the club opened some 27 years ago, we will miss excellant badminton facilities, and many friends made over the years. Do we not have enough flats in that area already. |
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| Pete Milligan | | They shall not be moved. DLB must be saved! |
| Peter Boyd | | As a member of this facility for nearly 20 years it will be very sad to see it knocked down and replaced by yet more flats in a town already blighted by endless redevelopment. All in the pursuit of greed and profit without any thought for the community as a whole. |
| Peter Bridgeman | | I sympathise with the problems in Bournemouth as we to in Guernsey are facing a similar problem. In a sport which is very successful in the UK we should be getting more support from the government to stop the redevelopment of these sites for purely financial gain. |
| Peter Gray | | I have been playing at these courts for 30 years and my father at originally the Linden Hall and then the Lanz since the 60's
It is a great loss to the area to sell sports facilies for short term profit |
| Peter Muncey | | If the club closes it will be a real shame. I love playing squash and agree with the majority of opinion on this site that there are no where near enough sporting facilities. If the council allow closure its cleary double standards. Whitbread is a faceless organisation only concerned with maximising shareholder profitability, they must just be jumping on the boscombe regeneration bandwagon. |
| Peter Simmonds | | I can't believe there are thoughts to closing it and replacing it with flats. There is huge personal history in this place for me and all my family. I will be devasted if it gets knocked down. Not to mention the fact that so many local people will loose out. Is nothing sacred these days when it comes down to building rights .. what next ..stone henge!!!!! |
| Peter Simmonds | | I can't believe there are thoughts to closing it and replacing it with flats. There is huge personal history in this place for me and all my family. I will be devasted if it gets knocked down. Not to mention the fact that so many local people will loose out. Is nothing sacred these days when it comes down to building rights .. what next ..stone henge!!!!! |
| Phili Brown | | This is a tragedy - how will the youngsters of tomorrow be able to be participate in active sports if all the facilities are lost to indicriminate development? |
| Philip Terence Haylock | | David Lloyd was a big part of my life for quite a while and even though i no longer attend there is a great sense of community that would be lost if the club were to close. Not everyone has a car, not everyone can afford to travel the extra distance every time they want to go to a David Lloyd. Due to it's central location that Boscombe David Lloyd is an excellent facility and it would be a shame if Bournemouth were to lose it. |
| Playboy | | Hi! Thanks a lot for the site! I was found many intersting there!
Bye, I will visit you again!
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| Rachel Montanana & Paul Begley | | My partner and I regularly use bournemouth david lloyd, and would help in any way possible to keep the club going, its local, friendly, has a great atmosphere and lots of sporting talent, but most of all offers a good way to relax and unwind after or before a hard day at work. Thank you and lets get fighting!!! |
| Rachel Mynors-Wallis | | |
| Rebecca Jenkins | | |
| Rex Gale | | Sport sacreficed for profit yet again |
| Rianne Long | | I am a DL Ringw member and use the Bournemouth facilities regularly. I think it would be a great loss to the community if this location disappears |
| Richard Davis | | I was a member for years and I have never witnessed such a good and active social side to a sports club. Good luck DLBAG !!! |
| Richard Lailey | | This is very bad news for the local Badminton and Squash community |
| Richard Norton | | Holds a good tournament! |
| Richard pearce | | |
| Rob Bond | | The David Lloyd club is a valuable asset to the local community. |
| Rob Booth | | Dont lose DL its got the best badminton courts in our area. Many or dorsets top player go there(badminton). Also DL brings alot to a very diverse coummunity in boscome.so DONT let it go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| rob lowry | | My family & friends visit DL in Bournemouth every year. A great facility. Don't lose it. |
| Robin James | | A unique club - don't let it die |
| Roger Eede | | Amenities like this are expensive and difficult to build. It seems wholly unnecessary to replace a valuable asset, which benefits health and well being, with yet more flats. Health centres should be being created not demolished! |
| Roxana Cojan & Steve Comer | | Whitbread must be on another planet, I can't believe they can't run such a popular and well-loved club profitably, and as for the council... well any casual stroll through the Sovereign Centre will tell you loud and clear that a gym is needed here much more than yet another block of flats. |
| Russell Clarke | | The planning department under the control (or not?) of the Lib Dems has been steadily ruining our conurbation over the years with the relentless building of either pokey little flats/houses that nobody really wants to live in, or with mega expensive ones that only the extremely rich are attracted to. Now not only are they granting permission for the property that the majority of local people do not want, but they are now intent on closing down more and more of the local amenities that LOCAL people really do want and need. So much for that bizzarre poll that was all over the press a month ago about people in Bournemouth being the happiest in the country, what a filppin joke that's going to be if the local planning carries on as it is. We realise that it's national government that's fuelling the problem with their insistence on all these extra houses/flats being built; but quite frankly it's gone too far and the planners need to start standing up for locals. It seems that they're too afraid of the developers taking applications to appeal? |
| Sally Grindley | | Far too many sports facilities in this country are being closed to make way for housing - just when we're becoming a nation of fatties! Where will it end? |
| Sally Tarling | | |
| Sam Ellis | | I would love DLB to stay open as it's been a great place to play sports and socialise. There are so many loyal members but I think the way Whitbread have acted behind closed doors is a complete dis-service and I can only see the David Lloyd Leisure name becoming out of favour with a lot of people in Bournemouth. |
| Sam Sykes | | I have not been a member long, but it is a great club and has really got me motivated to get fit. It can't close!!!! David Lloyd haven't really considered the fact that the new development down on boscombe beach front could attract a lot more members who have a lot of cash, if they marketed these new residence!!! |
| samantha keating. | | we need to lobby whitbreads to keep this club open on 26th june 2007 to enable a membership buyout in lieu of the barret deal which in view of the vast objections is doomed to failure at the planning permission stage. |
| Sandy Morris | | When will the planning authority wake up to the fact that resident need facilities such as this? We don't need yet more flats and no ammenities. If this club goes it will be a huge loss. Who will gain? Not families in need of housing but buy to let landlords and holiday home owners. |
| Sarah Ellis | | It's a real shame that we have to forgo excellent leisure facilities for yet more flats. Over half of the Dorset county badminton players train at DL Bournemouth and I think it will be detrimental to the county. The local community will also suffer from losing such a great sports facility. |
| Sarah Wilkinson | | |
| Sarah Wilkinson | | Obesity... heart disease... disappearing school playing fields... osteoporosis... Please don't close it. |
| Sarah-Jane Sly | | |
| Satheesh Shenoy | | Please re-think!! Lots of national tournaments held in Bournemouth. |
| Shan Lieng | | David Llyods are the BEST health clubs I've been to. A lot better than Cannons, Living Well, etc to name a few. This place actually have excellent Badminton Facilities. I've actually been there twice, even though I live in Stafforshire! It's a shame if this Health Club goes, especially they keep saying in the media.....obesity is on the rise! (Personally I think it should expand!) |
| Shan Seewooruthun | | Having suffered for many years from obesity, I'm appalled that David Lloyd has decided to sell this club. I have viewed other gyms and none have the specialist equipment to cope with my size. I am content at David Lloyd and can only imagine that the closure will be detrimental to my health and will almost certainly lead to my weight increasing dramatically. I dont want the bad days to return! I support any action taken to keep David Lloyd Boscombe open.!! |
| Sharnine Coleman | | Would like to see more rather than fewer clubs and teams |
| sherina solomon | | My sister has been a menber for 21 yrs and every time I visit with my kids thats the only place we go regularly as the kids plat badminton and I use the gym. The friendliness of the place is unique. One is made to feel at home. I have noticed the decline in the up keep of the place and the change of members and it all makes sense now.Whitbread have invested no money as cf to their other posh clubs to show a loss. Also a cutback in staff regularly. The doing up of gym floor was also a cover up for what their real intentions were. The company has lied to its loyal members all along. Ver cunning. Which other club can hold on to its members as long as this great club has.Even with all the new clubs opening up my sis has never once thought of leaving despite seeing the downturn in the club. The club was always a success and suddenly its not?Bad ownership i would say. Come on Whitbread/Barratts. Do none of your family members believe in protecting a community bonded not just by exercise but friendship and caring for the elderly who do not have cars and walk there as its so central. Get a conscience.Flats do not house families anyway. They need houses supposedly yet they build flats! |
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| Simon Burrows | | DLB is a focus for my life and my health and I need the club for both. |
| Simon Harper | | A sad day for Bournemouth. Good luck in saving our club, bournemouth's club the peoples club. |
| Simon Parkes | | DLB has been a fantastic club for me, not only in terms of rackets facilities, but more importantly in terms of the club atmosphere. It is one of the few clubs I have visited which has a real community atmosphere which should not be allowed to die! Bournemouth doesn't need any more flats - I can't sell the flat I own at the moment anyway because there are already too many - 68 more will not help an already saturated market. What we need are sports facilities, and a genuine rackets club! |
| Simon Walsh | | Good quality health clubs are a rarity in Bournemouth, flats are most certainly not. |
| Sophie Guymer | | |
| Stan Ellis | | |
| Stephen Hall | | With the government and NHS predicting that obesity is likely to cost us more & more, it seems rather a sort sited move to do away with one of Bournemouths premier health clubs. ps. The Badminton tournaments are excellent too. |
| Stephen Jordan | | The club has always been seen as key to the local communities health and fitness. The club has various teams that compete across the county and the loss of which will be felt by us all. |
| stephen Moores | | I have been very ill in the past getting back on track is working out at the gym and looking after myself i have also made lots of new freinds who have supported me it will be a great shame and very sad if the gym closses. |
| Stephen Woolfson | | We would be very sorry to see it go. We are members, who live in London, and regularly use the David Lloyd Club when in Bournemouth. It is extremely pleasant and friendly, with excellent facilities. PLEASE KEEP OUR CLUB. |
| Steve Bowie | | Keep one of the friendliest clubs around going. |
| Steve Laird | | |
| Steve McKay | | |
| steve smith | | With an obesity epidemic just around the corner, can england really afford to be closing down leisure and health venues. A few flats not being built is not going to make a difference, apart from some fat cats pockets being a little less empty who lets face it has enough money as it is. Dont forget that humans were given their bodies to use them, not lying down all day eating pizza and watching jerry springer! |
| Steve White | | |
| Steven Greaney | | I have been a very active member of the David LLoyd health club for over a year and this has improved my quality of life immensely. The Observer recently published an article on the huge investment being made in this area so I am confused and disappointed at the proposed closure. Surely it is obvious that the demand for a leisure club in Boscombe will rocket as the regeneration of the area gains momentum. I am currently researching other alternatives but none are as attractive, convenient and welcoming as the David Lloyd. There is a great community spirit at the Club and it would be a triumph if, together, we could save it from demolition. I don't wanna do a "grapevine to my right" any where else. |
| Stuart | | |
| Stuart Clifford Scourfield | | I have always found the DLB club hospitable a credit to the people and the area. The standard of the squash is excellent and the facilities provide a focal point for leisure and social activities. I always look forward to visiting and playing at DLB and will be sorely disappointed if this poorly conceived reduction to the lcoal community is undertaken. DLB hosts major events for the whole of Dorset and Bournemouth. |
| stuart hadden | | i think that it is terable such a excelent sports center nis being torn down. the club is ery important in the local comunity!! |
| STUART MAGNUS | | save our club! |
| Stuart Wilcox | | The club can't close! see Sam's comments |
| Sue Campbell | | I am an ex member but if I was going to join a club again, I would have no hesitation to go back to the David Lloyd in B’mth. Staff are excellent and facilities are extensive. It’s a perfect little club for all occasions. I loved the racquet sports there and think the quality of instruction and courts are fantastic. I will be very disappointed and saddened if the club closes and angered to know it was for flats! Don't do it. |
| Sue Laird | | |
| Sue Proctor | | Its a fantastic club and great atmosphere, don't close it. |
| SUE SAYERS | | |
| Susan Margaret Cook | | |
| Suzanne Crawford | | |
| Suzanne Lawes | | |
| Suzanne Lawes | | I'm dreading the day that this club closes. I play badminton there 5 days a week, it's like a second home to me. The people are all so friendly. Ringwood club is a lot nearer to where I live but the facilities at Bournemouth are so much better. |
| Terry Haylock | | |
| Terry Haylock | | This is a wonderful club and in its day had a lovely restaurant which has now been turned into a glorified cafe. Please don't let the sports facilities go in the same direction, we need racquet sports facilities in this area as well as the fitness facilities to give our youngsters a place to train with, and on, the first class equipment and courts this club provides. This is also a place where us oldies can keep our fitness levels up, be less of a burden on the NHS and enjoy the company of like minded people. |
| Terry Kuet | | |
| Theo Woodward | | It is the best squash club in Dorset in my opinion and one of the best for badminton in the country. My best squash memories have been there. It must stay open, for more than money, it brings satisfaction to many people each and every day. |
| Thomas Horne | | the david lloyd bournemouth is the only place that i know of in the south where you can play squash (at no extra charge), badminton (at no extra charge) and snooker (also at no exra charge). closing this facility is not only having a negative impact on its members and staff but on the infastucture and social aspects of the whole society. where the hell are all these new people in the flats going to go in their own leisure time? this is an outragous and truly digusting decision!!!!!!!! |
| Tim Moody | | |
| Tom Crassweller | | The DL Bournemouth has a unique place in the local community, bringing together a diverse cross-section of society in a safe environment. It is important that there are facilites available that encourage youngsters to not only take part in sport, but also develop a community spirit. Removing this facility is sending out a negative message to the children who currently benefit hugely. |
| Tom Mansbridge | | great sports facility with something for everybody....EVERY HELP SAVE THE CLUB |
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| Tom Trower | | I really hope it stays open!
A great club with excellant facilities
It would be gratelly missed! |
| Toni Sturgeon | | |
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| Tracy Parker | | |
| TREVOR BALE | | Losing both South Dorset & David Lloyd Bournemouth clubs in 1 year is terrible news for sport ~ Where exactly is the youth of this country supposed to go to get fit & healthy ?
Anything which can be done to save a club from property developers must be done !! |
| Trevor Pople | | |
| Valerie Fischer | | Deeply saddened to learn of the proposed closure of the DL Club with its "unique and top class racketball facilities" that serves the Bournemouth Town Centre and surrounding areas so well.
No other Sports facility can compare within at least 30 miles as far as I am aware as a Badminton player for over 20 years.
To have to give up this favourite sport in my attempt at keeing fit in retirement is appalling.
Come on you Town Planners, reject this planning proposal if it goes ahead. Support the health and fitness of Bournemouth Residents, and possible future Olympic Sportsmen and women.
To lose such a unique Sports facility for "yet another block of flats is folly!!
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| Vanessa King | | This is the only sports club around that caters for the needs of the whole family. The instructors are great, the classes are fun and we all enjoy coming here. |
| Victoria Beattie | | My sister and I have been members of the club for over a year now and attend 4/5 times a week. My grandfather was a member when the club was formerly known as The Lanz. It would be a great disappointment to see the club close down. |
| Victoria Simmonds | | It will be REALLY sad to see my second home for the last 24yrs close down. I support any action being taken to keep this great facility open. |
| Vivienne Yardley | | This is such a great club with such a fantastic friendly atmosphere - I wholeheartedly support the campaign to save it for all its members of all ages. |
| Wallace Mckeown | | I feel my health and the health of everybody in Bournemouth is more important than the profits of yet another property developer.
This club must not close as there already isn't enough sports facility's available. |
| Wendy Sykes | | I often vist my daughter in Bournemouth and it is the one place that she and her patner are always talking about, keeping fit and the community spirit.I also go as their guest.Please don't let it close. |