{"id":250315,"date":"2025-07-09T08:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250315\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:51:09","slug":"anger-over-replacing-indoor-tennis-courts-with-padel-in-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250315\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger over replacing indoor tennis courts with padel in Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Alan Robins, cabinet member for sports, recreation and libraries at BHCC, said the authority was committed to improving sports facilities for everyone in the city and had received many messages of support for the proposed change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;We want all of these [facilities] to be inclusive and well-used. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Padel is an incredibly inclusive sport and proving very popular and successful at helping people get active and stay healthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robins said the indoor tennis courts at Withdean were only in use &#8220;for around a third of the time&#8221; they were available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the council appreciated the members&#8217; concerns and wanted to &#8220;hear from them about how we can best use our leisure facilities to accommodate their needs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A decision will be confirmed after their meeting, he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councillor Alan Robins, cabinet member for sports, recreation and libraries at BHCC, said the authority was committed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-250315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114822426419143911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}