Fencing Around The Club - Work Commencing Next Week

Dear Members

When you return to the Club, we hope you will agree that the clubhouse and pitches are looking magnificent! We are indebted to the volunteers who have given hundreds of hours of their time to make these improvements, and want to ensure these standards are maintained.

The following statement will be posted around the Club and shared with our nearest neighbours over the coming week. Please support these efforts to deter irresponsible behaviour on our grounds, while maintaining the Club as a safe and welcoming place for members and visitors.

Once the fencing is complete members will have access to the combination lock codes on the gates.

Public Statement

After years of vandalism and damage to our pitches, the Club Committee has made the difficult decision to close our ground to the public.

Every person who walks across the pitches in the wet, every dog that digs a hole, every vehicle or bike that churns up the turf contributes to a recurring cycle of damage that makes our pitches unsafe for play. Our volunteers spend increasing amounts of time removing litter and dog mess, and making repairs ahead of games and training. In doing so they have been subject to verbal abuse from members of the public.

Over the past 12 months we have invested considerable amounts of time and money in bringing our pitches up to a safe standard. After consultation with Hythe Town Council and Folkestone & Hythe District Council, from 12th April 2021 fencing will be going up around the pitches, and the ground will be closed to the public.

There is no public right of way across our ground. The map shows the new access points, and the area outside the fenced pitches where members of the public are still welcome to walk.

Only club members and visitors attending games, functions or boot fairs can bring dogs in to the ground. We ask members and visitors to keep dogs on a lead at all times, to clean up after their dog, and not to walk across the pitches.

We are a sports club. We welcome new members, we welcome anyone who wants to play sport, and we want to provide well maintained facilities. We have to be sure that adults and children playing sport can do so in a safe, clean environment. Please respect our decision, and respect our ground.

T hank you

Philip Carter, Chair

On Behalf of HCSC Committee & Members

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09/04/2021

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