The estate has now agreed priority for the 4th court which we will share with them (Chester House and the church).

The new booking sheets will show when you can reserve and guarantee the court and when you can use it if free but not reserve it. For the latter occasions, you would have to vacate the court if someone from Chester House or the church wished to play though outside Wimbledon-inspired enthusiasm they do not use them often.

Our priority / bookable times are:

Monday to Friday: 5:00pm until 9:30pm

Saturday: noon until  8:00pm  (the club session will use the court during the usual times)

Sunday: 10:00am until 8:00pm  (the last 2 hours is on a trial basis as I added it in after the initial request;  again usual club session applies).

The agreement is that if someone from the estate is using the 4th court during our priority, then they would be politely asked to leave but allowed up to 5 minutes to finish a game and the same would apply in reverse. No one else can use the courts: a few outsiders chance their arm from time to time, so only club members and people from Chester House, the church or occasionally workers from the sheltered housing can play. So far none of the residents have played but you never know.

We are aiming to upgrade the lights on the 4th court as well and move their control into our club house but in the mean time Joe has the key for the lights, needed from about 8:30pm at the moment.

We have shared the cost of the upgrade with the estate and they have been generous with us as our priority times are those when we would most likely use them.