Monday, April 11, 2005
Cathcob Playing Fields
Believe it or not these fields were intended for sports, especially football and rugby rather than the waterlogged motorcycle track and free grazing for "stray" horses that they look like now.
A botched drainage programme in the 1990s left the fields unsuitable for winter sports and many local teams closed down or went elsewhere to practice and play.
From 1999 your Councillors have been trying to find a way to pay for the necessary improvements. Two years ago we agreed to the sale of Council land next to Chester Close for house building as long as some of the money from the sale was spent improving the sports fields.
The land is being sold at last and the Council will start work this summer. £210,000 will be spent on drainage so the fields can be used throughout the year. £50,000 more is being spent erecting metal fencing around the fields to keep out horses and motor-vehicles.
Its been a long time coming so we hope the work is successful.
Cllr. David English
A botched drainage programme in the 1990s left the fields unsuitable for winter sports and many local teams closed down or went elsewhere to practice and play.
From 1999 your Councillors have been trying to find a way to pay for the necessary improvements. Two years ago we agreed to the sale of Council land next to Chester Close for house building as long as some of the money from the sale was spent improving the sports fields.
The land is being sold at last and the Council will start work this summer. £210,000 will be spent on drainage so the fields can be used throughout the year. £50,000 more is being spent erecting metal fencing around the fields to keep out horses and motor-vehicles.
Its been a long time coming so we hope the work is successful.
Cllr. David English
