In response to your article about a new community centre to be built at Rye’s Tilling Green, we local Quakers are very worried at the plans to demolish the old building, without proper provision for a temporary one to take its place.
The old primary school has proved immensely popular as a community centre and we are very much aware that the building is used constantly throughout the week as a meeting place for a number of groups. We Quakers meet at the centre every Sunday morning at 10:30 and feel very much at home there, but we are also conscious that when the old building is demolished there will be a long length of time when the Tilling Green community will be without a centre. We hope Amicus and its senior project manager, Lisa Shead, will consult with all the groups who use the centre, including ourselves, to work together to find a temporary home, whilst the new centre is being constructed. It is important that our members and visitors can be sure of where to find us.
Martin Wimbush
on behalf of Rye Local Meeting of Friends