save hurst green childrens centre (sure start centre)

Extremely disappointed to hear that Holland & Hurst Green CC has been earmarked for closure under further spending cuts to local services. As a childcare professional working across this area, I cannot express strongly enough the essential role that the Children's Centre has played in the local community across the last few years. It is particularly disappointing that this centre is marked for closure and the neighbouring St.Pier's Children's Centre in Lingfield will likely remain open, despite frequent struggles for services at St Pier's to reach the families that really need them!

This area of Oxted is less economically prosperous and families there will struggle to get over to Lingfield to access similar services, whereas I suspect the same would not be so much the case the other way around! Cannot understand this decision and hope that it can be reviewed as soon as possible.