Object
Preferred Options
Representation ID: 46716
Received: 23/07/2012
Respondent: Joanna Illingworth
Leisure facilities are increasingly being moved to the fringes of towns as sports facilities are seen as something that can be moved to the countryside, making the old sites available for lucrative housing developments.
There is a"leapfrogging" process. Sports clubs move to a greenfield site on the edge of built up area. In a few years' time they seek permission to develop the site for housing and to move their sports fields even further away from the town and the people they purport to serve.
Leisure facilities are increasingly being moved to the fringes of towns as sports facilities are seen as something that can be moved to the countryside, making the old sites available for lucrative housing developments.
There is a"leapfrogging" process. Sports clubs move to a greenfield site on the edge of built up area. In a few years' time they seek permission to develop the site for housing and to move their sports fields even further away from the town and the people they purport to serve.