21/10/2026
HELP US SAVE SOBO BEACH: MONDAY 26 OCTOBER IS A CRITICAL DEADLINE.
DETAILS ON HOW YOU CAN HELP BELOW 👇
The fight for SOBO Beach’s future isn’t over and we urgently need your help.
With the Council’s procurement standstill period due to end, we have just days to secure the safeguards needed to protect SOBO Beach’s long-term future.
More than 10,800 people signed our petition to Save SOBO Beach
Together, we helped secure an offer of another eleven months and a commitment from BCP Council to independently review the tender process.
But the decision to award a twenty-year lease to a new operator still stands.
Despite repeated requests, important questions about how that decision was reached remain unresolved.
Questions about public consultation, how the tender was designed and scored, the assessment of community value, and whether appropriate financial due diligence was undertaken.
We’re calling on BCP Council to:
1) PAUSE THE LONG-TERM AGREEMENT.
2) COMPLETE THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW.
3) RESTART THE TENDER.
If the review identifies material problems that cannot properly be remedied within the existing process, we want a lawful, redesigned tender that properly reflects the public views and the social and community value of this important public space.
NOW WE NEED YOUR HELP.
Full Council has agreed to an independent review, but it hasn’t guaranteed that the findings will be considered BEFORE a binding twenty-year agreement is signed.
This is the crucial safeguard we’re asking councillors to support.
Please email your local ward councillors before 26 October.
We’ve made it easy.
Enter your postcode, personalise our ready-written letter and send it directly to your councillors.
Ask them to support a further Council resolution and the lawful safeguards needed to ensure the independent review can make a difference.
SOBO Beach is more than a venue, it is a year round community hub.
Another eleven months is progress, but now is time to secure its long-term future.
You helped us get this far, now help us finish what we started.
EMAIL YOUR COUNCILLOR TODAY:
➡️ https://savesobo.com/take-action
Please share this with friends, family and neighbours who love SOBO Beach. Every personal message helps demonstrate that the community’s concerns remain unresolved.
We’ve made our voices heard
Now let’s make sure they count.
15 questions about the 20-year SOBO Beach decision remain unanswered. Email your BCP councillors in 2 minutes: pause the agreement, complete the review.