Bath Rugby has no rights to Rec | This is Exeter

The rugby-biased leaders of our local authority are prepared to take any action necessary to use the Bath Recreation Ground as one of the largest rugby venues in the South West.

They have defiantly disregarded the legal safeguards that apply to this ground.

Then, in an attempt to justify themselves they have embarked up on a pretentious and unsubstantiated claim that the majority of Bath citizens actually want to see the open spaces of their recreation ground turned into a block of commercial infrastructure. Even in the unlikely event that this was true there is no justification for them to break the law.

The law pertaining to this ground does not allow domination by one sport or one individual.

Therefore the life-long lease of tenure granted by our local authority is legally flawed.

And planning permission granted for the already erected rugby grandstand is in breach of the law too.

Leaders of our local authority had the arrogance to appropriate ?1 million of local tax payers' money in an attempt to change the laws affecting this ground.

If this had been successful it would have been to the detriment of paying Bath citizens.

All of these actions have taken place during the watch of our present council leader. He (an ex rugby player incidentally) has an overriding influence on all matters affecting our community.

The enjoyment derived from 15 home games throughout the rugby season does not justify the desecration of the Bath Recreation Ground and the so-called boost that these 15 games have on the local economy is in fact so insignificant that it is not even missed over the remaining 350 days of the year.

Rugby has always been played on this ground maybe but just because you have always worked in a bank does not entitle you to rob it!

I have heard it say that "consideration will be given for other sports to use the facilities of the rugby stadium". Really?

It just so happens that the citizens of Bath already have an entitlement for the full use of their recreation ground.

Leaders of our local authority are now seeking to do a land swap, a fancy word for the use of arm-twisting enforcement by the school bully.

A swap of any kind is only deemed to have taken place when two parties mutually agree to exchange property that they themselves own.

The leaders of our local authority do not own this ground and there will be no mutual agreement.

In all of these matters the leader of our local authority has shown no respect to the legal entitlements of the Bath citizens, no respect to justice or democracy and no respect to the rule of English law.

PHIL INMAN Combe Down Bath

Source: http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/Bath-Rugby-rights-Rec/story-15657803-detail/story.html

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