As a community member, I would like to make a few points in support of Slade living again as a community hub, owned and run by the community for the entire regional shire and beyond.
• We are really happy that the council has afforded our community the opportunity to develop a vision for this beautiful area that is Slade Campus, by buying Slade in the first place. It is now our responsibility, as a community, to work together with the council. We need to create an appropriate body to relieve the council of the running and managing of the Slade complex which is beyond its jurisdiction. We also have to help and contribute to the vision of Slade as a dynamic cultural place used and enjoyed by the whole community.
• Owning and operating a complex such as Slade Campus is not part of a local government’s core business and therefore, an alternative body must be set up, perhaps even to sit beside the council, in order for Slade to be managed for the community by the community.
• I am delighted with the groundswell of interest out there in the community to buy Slade and to run it as a community precinct. The council has to sell and we as a community are the logical carers of such an amazing central site. Warwick has no community/civic centre and this campus could be the perfect place for it as well as a hub of the many different interest groups that already exist. There is also room for many more, from throughout the entire Warwick and Stanthorpe shire that could use such a facility.
• It is important that, since the council has managed to intervene on our behalf and hold onto this place, we, as a community, embrace this opportunity and invest ourselves in the future of one of the most spectacular and crowning places of Warwick.
Sue Propsting,
Warwick
