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Heaton Park sports plan gets go-ahead - as it happened

February 11, 2010

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Heaton Park in Manchester, where protesters are campaigning against plans for a sports complex

Councillors have granted permission for a huge sports complex in Manchester's Heaton Park.

Hundreds of people had formally objected to the plans and 6,400 have joined a 'Save Heaton Park' group on Facebook, and objectors voiced their anger at when planning committee members gave the plans the go-ahead. Follow live coverage here ....

The proposals are for 13 floodlit football pitches, a caged football area and climbing wall, six tennis and netball courts and a pavilion with changing rooms.

Campaigners objected on the grounds of noise impact, traffic and loss of historic open space. Among the objectors was Bury South MP Ivan Lewis.

You can follow what happened at the planning meeting here.

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Marquis de Sade et la petit monge tout (11/02/2010 at 14:21)

To destroy a historic park in this way is terrible. Can they leave nothing alone ? As a child I cycled,ran and played in Heaton Park. It is part of Manchesters' heritage. How dare some 'small time politicians of the day' destroy it forever. If they want to build this type of thing they can do it in lots of other places.

haggis, Glossop (11/02/2010 at 14:27)

NIMBYism. But if this isn't built, the same people will complain about kids on the streets

Mad Welsh Scotsman, Cadishead (11/02/2010 at 15:02)

There's another bit of historical Manchester concreted over and the views of the public completely brushed aside. I don't think this will be the end of it, I suspect there will be public backlash over this

Marquis de Sade et la petit monge tout (11/02/2010 at 15:10)

Ofcourse we all know that sweetners and corruption don't exist in politics in Manchester, so we can rest assured they made an honourable decision.

Robert Tocker (11/02/2010 at 15:17)

is nothing safe in Labours Hands,they will sell their own mothers.Just how much are the council getting for this public land they have stolen.

Ronnie Silver (11/02/2010 at 15:23)

Just what next,will they now sell off more of the park for houses.I can remember them wanting to sell off land some years ago and it was stopped.Will these pitches be free or will people have to pay another private company who get land cheap and make millions out of the public.

Vote for David, tory land (11/02/2010 at 15:24)

The big question now is; which football grounds will now become "surplus to requirementa" and become available for redevelopement for light industry and/or housing. Watch this space.
And "Mad Welsh Scotsman, Cadishead", you do not play footy on concrete, well not in England

Marquis de Sade et la petit monge tout (11/02/2010 at 15:47)

The quicker this damned bunch of labour free loaders gets out of Manchester the better. They destroyed Higher Broughton and now their kind are destroying our green space and heretage.

Mad Welsh Scotsman, Cadishead (11/02/2010 at 15:53)

And "Mad Welsh Scotsman, Cadishead", you do not play footy on concrete, well not in England
Vote for David, tory land

"The proposals are for 13 floodlit football pitches, a caged football area and climbing wall, six tennis and netball courts and a pavilion with changing rooms". (Quote from Story)

You don't get changed in the open air though do you! The tennis or netball courts will not be grass nor will the pavillion be!

Hurry O'Caine - the Irish Whirlind, Typhoon Tipperary (11/02/2010 at 15:58)

Robert Tocker: "is nothing safe in Labours Hands"

No. That's why we need a concerted effort to get them out of Westminster and out of The Albert Square Grand Soviet.

Savage Mandarin, Manchester (11/02/2010 at 16:08)

Democracy at work in the Town Hall. You dont't want it: they do. You can't stop them: they'll do it. And next time there's an election, you'll all troop out and vote Labour, 'cos that's the way you've always voted. Is it any wonder you get trampled?

arachne, The Web (11/02/2010 at 16:42)

There are elections coming up this spring. Give those Labour Councillors who did nothing to protect this public park a bloody nose. Vote them out.

Nij, Manchester (11/02/2010 at 16:52)

As someone who grew up next to the park and uses it every week, I don't see what the problem is here. This area of the park is very rarely used. The bowls facilities will still exist. This part of the park is mainly used by walkers of aggressive dogs who want some space and still don't clean up after themselves. I wish a facility like this existed when I was a kid, rather than the muddy pitches we played on.

StretfordSimon, Stretford (11/02/2010 at 16:57)

Perhaps if 6400 people had bothered to complain formally the result would have been different but hey, why bother when you can just click a button and wash your hands of it?

Hamish Macbeth, Whitefield (11/02/2010 at 17:28)

Goodbye Park !

Mad Welsh Scotsman, Cadishead (12/02/2010 at 08:14)

And "Mad Welsh Scotsman, Cadishead", you do not play footy on concrete, well not in England

I put this reply on yesterday but MEN for some reason didn't publish it

"The proposals are for 13 floodlit football pitches, a caged football area and climbing wall, six tennis and netball courts and a pavilion with changing rooms". Quote from story

Tennis and Netball courts and the changing rooms and pavillion will need concreting or tarmac over though

Audenshaw Bob (12/02/2010 at 08:20)

Well what a surprise that wasn't.

Do you know that in the city centre only one development has successfully been rejected and that is now back on the table again albeit with much revised plans. That is at Jackson's Wharf, Castlefield.

On that was fiercely rejected was in the Village at the corner of Whitworth and Princess Street. On a summer's day people will stand outside the bars at that bit of Canal Street and the apartments around there had good views. However, a huge hotel and apartments are going to be built on the sapce that was a car park.

It will block out all sunlight, encroach on the surrounding buildings and completely block views and destroy privacy.

About 700 peopel object to this for various reasons. This was a mix of business, residents and others that use the area. But it still got the go-ahead. This is at one on the busiest roads in town and they want to put more residents and hotel there. And they have narrowed the roads there thus creating more congestion so why add to it even more?! Nobody wanted it apart from the developers but still it gets the go ahead.

What usually happens with these developments is they plan for say a 14 storey block, people object so they make it 11 storeys and it gets through planning.

The council are there to serve the people not be their master.

Schwyz (12/02/2010 at 10:33)

Marquis de Sade et le petit mange-tout!? ( sorry to correct the old francais!) We have to blame Salford council for the Higher Broughton mess. They ARE all as inept as each other. Are we suprised by the decision? I agree no way.........

Ace Riley, outsidethebox (12/02/2010 at 12:28)

Audenshaw Bob this is the problem with planners in manchester they dont take into consideration about light .manchester spends most of its time in the dark winter months and building tall structures will only make things worse,just look around piccadilly how dismal it is .The city centre feels very closed in and Claustrophobic ,I went on the wheel near urbis last year and was surprised how closed in the area now feels.manchester city cloned just like other european cities.concrete and plastic.we are loosing interesting places like heaton park for the sake of developers making millions.

henty17, manchester (12/02/2010 at 14:09)

fantastic news, they should have had the meeting at 9am, there would have been no protestors then as they would all have been queuing outside the post office for their pension. NIMBY's

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