'˜A blow' to gym club as plans denied for Sidlesham base

By The Newsroom
Published 18th Jun 2018, 13:16 BST
Updated 19th Jun 2018, 16:55 BST
Kris Dorney and members of The Academy of Gym (TAG), which has been refused planning permission for a base in Sidlesham.Kris Dorney and members of The Academy of Gym (TAG), which has been refused planning permission for a base in Sidlesham.
Kris Dorney and members of The Academy of Gym (TAG), which has been refused planning permission for a base in Sidlesham.
Despite hundreds of supporters, a gym club has lost its bid to create a base for training young gymnasts in Sidlesham.

A petition of 218 signatures was submitted asking for the plans for the Academy of Gym to be approved, along with nearly 60 letters of support.

But planning officers ruled the countryside development at Keynor Farm, Keynor Lane was unsuitable and the warehouse site needed to be marketed more extensively for business use before it could become anything else.

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Kris Dorney, who runs the club, said: “It’s the council just being really short-sighted and not looking at the big picture and just looking at the policy book.

“Being in the countryside we get more for our money, more space and in the city it’s much more expensive, we have to maybe look for something smaller, but we’ve got so many kids.”