12:00pm Sunday 24th January 2010
A RANGE of sports-related activities are being lined up for Boscombe sea front following the opening of the artificial surf reef, a meeting heard.
Cabinet member for leisure and tourism, Cllr Anne Filer, said that a government-funded council sports development officer will be organising an activity programme of events and competitions including paddle boarding and volleyball as well as surfing.
The council is also hoping to get permanent volleyball facilities on Boscombe beach and is talking to Volleyball England, the Bournemouth council meeting heard on Tuesday.
Cllr Filer said that on a recent visit to Boscombe beach she noticed that it was “absolutely packed with young people enjoying sports and all sorts of people walking along the beach”.
She added: “The reef has completely revitalised the beach and regenerated the area.”
Cllr Filer added that the reef was unlikely to play a part in the 2012 Olympics as surfing is not an Olympic sport.
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