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DEMOLISH VILLAGE HALL FOR NEW HEALTH CENTRE

Dear Ed,

I am not alone in questioning why Hawkinge has a Village Hall and Community Centre in the same location. 

I understand that o­ne reason is that the Village Hall is cheaper to hire and another is an understandable desire by some in the community to hang o­n to what they know and love. 

Here comes the lateral thinking bit...

The Hawkinge Health Centre needs a new site,  a proposal for a plot o­n the Development land behind Lidl is not at all suitable and as we know the Mill Lane proposal was turned down.

Why not replace the Village Hall and Car park with a nice new Health Centre and utilise the triangle of land behind the Community Centre for parking (for both amenities)?.  Would this not benefit the heart of Hawkinge ?   Perhaps a new Youth Hall could be considered o­n the site of the existing Health Centre using the funds the Council will raise from current sale of another Hall.

Just food for thought and no doubt some will be appalled by the thinking but we are a fast growing community (estimated around 7000 in three or four years) and an efficient Health Centre will benefit everyone. 

David