Local residents have won their battle to stop Wandsworth Council build-ing up to 12 hard-surface, fenced off, football pitches on Tooting Bec Common.
Wandsworth had proposed to tarmac over green open space by the railway line on the Common to build a private development of flood-lit, all-weather 5-a-side pitches.
Opposition came from local residents close to the Common, local Residents’ Associations, and the Tooting Common Management Advisory Committee. They were backed by local Liberal Democrat Councillors who took the campaign to Wandsworth Town Hall.
A real victory for people-power, hundreds of signatures we collected on a petition against the pitches.
At the end of September a meeting was called for local residents and the Tooting Common Management Advisory Committee.
Council officials said that they were backing down on plans to build the pitches.
Instead they plan to upgrade the existing children’s playground, the One O'clock Club and to improve the existing sports pitch.
1 comments:
I would be interested to know whether local residents would be willing to support a community and council led effort to install a multi-sports pitch rather than a commercial, private 5-a-side complex?
As the club secretary of a local football team, we are desperate to find a home ground for our matches and I believe that the provision for community teams is not sufficient.
If there was support, I would be happy to work on such a proposal and to look into funding sources too.
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