Maybe if they didn't pay people £7.60 per hour to monitor tennis courts to ensure people are paying to play, they wouldn't have to charge £7.60 for an hour court hire. Seems like some ridiculous job creation policy.
Having high user fees for publicly funded tennis courts in an appalling policy. Were I grew up in Western Canada, I had some public tennis courts a 3 minute walk from my house. They, like all non tennis club courts, were free to use.