There's growing calls for prestoncouncil to re-think its sports hub plans for Ashton Park. PaulFaulkner2 speaks to the campaign group that wants to see an amended set of proposals for the nearly £10m project in the park. ⚽🌳
“When I moved here in 1972, you could go and play a game of bowls in the park…[and] pitch and putt, [but] the council took that away. You could even play organised football…but they took those pitches away for a lack of use.
The LDRS has been told that the grass football pitches will remain free and open for general use – except at times when a team has paid to play on them. “I feel very strongly about any loss of biodiversity, no matter where it is..especially in these times of catastrophic climate breakdown,” she explained.
Campaigners opposing the plans for Ashton Park say that they accept the site needs sprucing up – but believe that are better ways of doing that than the city council’s current blueprint. Her friend, Stephanie Winterbottom, added: “We could have a skate park, much better facilities for children, better drainage, more seats for the older people – there’s a lot that could be done to this park that would benefit the whole community, not just the minority.”She also described the proposed location of the new car park, close to an existing children’s play area as “an accident waiting to happen”.
“The proposals are still at the master planning stage and they need to be worked up into plans suitable for a planning application, based on a wide range of surveys, detailed design work and feedback from the public consultation exercise.
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