Nottinghamshire Live and the Nottingham Post have launched the Protect Nottingham Community Centres campaign
"Services everywhere have been stripped away coming out of the pandemic. People will die because of these decisions."
It means the council will be attempting to agree new leases with the centres, which would see them move off their current peppercorn rents and onto a market-level rent. For some, this will mean a new bill of around £30,000 a year, compared to a peppercorn rent which could have been as low as £10. The dedicated volunteers running these centres, many of whom have given decades of service to their communities, believe that the most vulnerable could suffer as a result of the city council’s current approach. We all recognise that the council continues to face severe financial challenges.
Nottingham City Council has more recently said that it recognises the importance of the services delivered at community centres and wants a "core offer" to remain, saying that it will work with centres to produce business plans for the future. The council also says it could introduce a phased period where future rent bills are deferred and discounted.
We believe the council should use the meeting we are calling for to share a fully-fledged scheme in terms of how rent payments in future could work. This scheme should come with as much leniency as possible in terms of deferrals, discounts and support for when a centre cannot pay its monthly rent bill.
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