Brighton Climbing Centre

Should Brighton have an indoor climbing facility?

I have been climbing for a number of years now and it has always amazed me that Brighton does not have an indoor climbing facility for the public to use.

I keep hearing people talking about a wall in Brighton -me included -but no one has managed to do anything about it. Until now that is. Cassie and Sean set up a Facebook Group a while back to garner support for the climbing wall. I'll have to admit I haven't really heard anything until today when I received an email from them.

Finally they have found somewhere to house the Brighton Climbing Centre. With a possible 16m high wall (eat your heart out K2). Enough to make me nervous for sure. At the moment it is going through planning permission and they need support from as many people as possible for this climbing wall. Please go to the Brighton Climbing Centre website and use their messaging system to send an email of support for the Brighton Climbing Centre.

This is a copy of the email that I sent:

Please take this email as support for the planning application for the Brighton Climbing Centre. It is sad thing that Brighton does not have a decent in door public climbing wall. Small towns such as Horley and Midhurst all boast such leisure facilities and Brighton is lagging behind in providing people from the city and its surrounding areas with such a facility.



I was climbing at K2 in Crawley on Monday 17th January and the wall was jam packed. By 7.30pm you had to wait to get on a rope and climb, demonstrating the popularity of this sport. A large number of people at the wall were from Brighton University. People often start their climbing while at University and go on to really appreciate the outdoors through climbing, walking and mountaineering. Having a climbing centre in Brighton will give the students there (as well as the other citizens of the city) the opportunity to experience this fantastic sport along with the camaraderie and health benefits that it brings, both now and in the future.


I implore you to look upon this application with favour.


Gareth Sear


www.walkandtravel.com

I look forward to hearing how it progresses. Congratulations are to be given to those involved to get it this far.