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Vale Farm - A Very Short History  (If new to LCW, this is the best place to get a sense of the issues.)

The New Willesden Sports Centre - Hype vs. reality

Vale Farm Recent

Excess Chlorine Incident - Kids pool had 17x too much chlorine- April 2008

Vale Farm Showers - Over six years to fix showers installed by LC

Vale Farm 2006

Willesden Sports Centre   The contract for a new centre has gone to a consortium that includes LC despite a history of complaints. 

Willesden - Bill O'Neill's Correspondence about state and closure

Willesden - Press Items about Closure

Safety at Vale Farm  Or rather lack of it.

Vale Farm May - June 2004 - Some correspondence

Vale Farm May - Sept & Oct  2004 - Some correspondence

Vale Farm Feb 05 - Update and some correspondence

Vale Farm Archive  A small part of the earliest correspondence

Escalated Complaints  Log of the escalations and reply times

Apologies Received  Some of the ways in which LC and Brent have accepted the issues reported

Audit Commission  What the AC says about Brent and its Leisure Services level of competence

Freedom of Information Brent's curmudgeonly approach to informing ratepayers and users

Making a Complaint   How to complain to Brent Council and Leisure Connection

Correspondence with Councillor  Starts with why LC got the Willesden contract and soon progresses to Freedom of Information, or lack of it.

Whitewater Fiasco - How Brent paid £370k+ for sacking the first contractor from Vale Farm and learned little from the experience.

Brent is one of the Greater London boroughs. Parts are high density and high social need and towards the north lie more affluent pockets and some large open areas. The borough is now dominated by the new Wembley Stadium arch, about one kilometer from Brent Town Hall. Putting aside the issue of Brent Council services, I have enjoyed my fifteen years in the borough and the diversity of the population. PB