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.
slightly off track its not just sporting or leisure that is getting effected,
my local park has a beck that under passes a walk way and that had been blocked for some time, when the rain comes it filled and overflowed on to the path way making it very boggy and saturating the surrounding ground, it was only because of a phone call from me highlighting the dangers of high wind soggy ground and high trees did they clear the drains,
since then the beck is running freely but is bring debris again so it will block again, back on track Wreny park has a football field that gets marked out once then its left for the clubs to sort out, its left to over grow in the closed season for to be cut now and again, the rest of the park used to cut regular not now its left to be call meadow land part of that meadow land used to have kids playing football and goals would be fetch in, not any more as drainage from the beck soon buggered that up.
The council will only do what it has to do and will close a blind eye until someone threatens them with legal action
If anyone want to test that out, call the council and tell them that you have slipped on the metal bridge and near fell in the steam, they own the bridge as in the park and it should have a kick strip of 100 mm but there is nothing there, they could be sued
I do not expect the council to even entertain looking at a stadium, but we could draw some picture and dream
