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Sports hall plan is a blow to Blackpool netball community

Blackpool Council is set to borrow £325,000 to change indoor court space at Blackpool Sports Centre into a soft play area for under-eights. The move will halve the space at the sports hall on West Park Drive, meaning the loss of one netball court and five badminton courts. The Fylde Netball League – which celebrated its 60th anniversary this year – has been forced to find new venues around the town for its indoor winter season. But fixtures have been disrupted, some courts are of a lower standard and some teams have been told they cannot play because not enough replacement courts are available. Now netball chiefs have hit out at the council for sacrificing sports facilities for a play area. Fylde Netball League secretary Barbara Graham said: “We have ended up with non-standard netball facilities and have had to turn teams away because we cannot accommodate the numbers anymore due to a lack of facilities. “This has also meant that the revenue we would have ordinarily spent during the winter season, around £11,000 for only a handful of hours use per week, will now go to local academies and will no longer benefit council…

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