Campaigners have spent the last year trying to block the changes
Campaigners who have spent the last year trying to block a revamp they say would have ruined their local park have reacted with delight to the news the contentious project has been ditched. As the Local Democracy Reporting Service revealed, a planned overhaul of Preston ’s Ashton Park has been cancelled in its current form – meaning a synthetic 3G pitch, sports pavilion and car park will no longer be built on the Pedders Lane site.
Yet it was only on Tuesday evening, when members of the ruling Labour group on the authority met to discuss the financial pressures facing other Levelling Up Fund schemes in the city that the Ashton Park blueprint was dropped – with that element of the funding set to be transferred to other projects, subject to the approval of the government and full council.
“It defeats the object of having an Ashton club when we’re playing in a Newton and having to look even further afield into the FY postcodes for somewhere to train, because we have so many teams,” said John Griffiths, who manages Springfields White under-12s.
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