steadygetyerboots-on wrote:
I can believe that. The same thing has happened with the football & rugby pitches next to Castleford swimming pool. Over several years the Council took down the posts, so kids stopped going, the council stopped cutting the grass & now the land is for sale ("suitable for development").
I get that WMDC have had to make changes following incredible cuts in funding, but their record on sporting/leisure is appalling.
It goes back a lot further and deeper than that mate with the land that was always known as the Bevan Huts.
At least 30 years ago my sons played on those fields for the junior RL team Half Acres Trinity. The club paid to play there but got changed else where. As you say things just got worse and worse and the grass was never cut and then they stopped marking out the pitch so eventually we moved to the Half Acres school pitch which gave them the excuse to take the posts down.
About the same time i played in a 20 overs cricket league on there and although the batting strip was always ok gradually the outfield became over grown and the boundary wasn't marked.
The end finally came when we arrived for our game (paid the fee) to find an unofficial match going on and the 2 teams refused to move.
In hindsight it seems as if this was the plan for the Bevan Huts and other sporting venues.
