Many are signing the ‘38 Degrees’ petition to protect school playing fields, worried this could mean children will lose the space where they need to play.
Without their playing fields it’s hard to imagine the children of today – the Team GB of tomorrow ever matching this year’s record Olympic medal haul.
If playing fields are sold off and built on, there’ll be no way to get them back.
Please sign the petition:https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/playing-fields
Editor:
Many times this newspaper has queried the future of the former Avenue School playing field near Defoe Crescent, which has stood unused for 20 years.
Durham County Council wanted this massive site sold for housing development, but the former Sedgefield Borough Council held them at bay as the Planning Authority.
That responsibility has now passed to the County Council and we wonder if they will now give themselves permission to develop this land.
It isn’t strictly a school playing field now, but it is designated as “recreational” land in the last local plan.
The plot has been fenced off and maintained all these years for no purpose except perhaps dog walking!
