Time almost up for Herringthorpe Playing Fields consultation

TIME is running out for people to have their say on plans to lease a chunk of Herringthorpe Playing Fields to Rotherham Rugby Club.

Rotherham Borough Council is consulting on an application by the club to lease a slice of land off Badsley Moor Lane for 25 years.

The rugby club has maintained that the controversial scheme will provide a much-needed home for its junior and amateur sides, but campaigners fear that it will be used as a training base for the Rotherham Titans.

They are also opposed to the installation of floodlights on the fenced-off land, which was approved at a planner’s appeal last month.

More than 50 people attended a site visit last year to protest against the plans, while dozens held their own protest on the fields in December.

All objections and comments relating to the plans have to submitted to the council by Friday.

They can be made in writing to Director of Legal and Democratic Services, Riverside House, Main Street, Rotherham S60 1AE.