Bury Council is proposing a 25 year lease on the St Joseph’s Fields area off Sandgate Road to Prestwich Marauders Football Club. A similar lease is being proposed for the Clifton Road football pitch.

The two sites are currently ‘self-managed’ by Marauders. What is proposed is a 25 year lease which will allow the club to attract external funding to improve the site for football at grass roots level.

There is not going to be a loss open space, the agreement put in place will in fact protect this valuable asset and allow the club to manage it better for all of the local community.

As part of our legal obligation in entering such an arrangement, the council has served notices in the local paper to advertise loss of open space

Prestwich Marauders football club which runs teams and training for children aged 5 – 16 (more information on their website here).

Please can you get in touch if you have queries about this, or would like us to raise issues with the Council department.

This is the formal newspaper advert:

DISPOSAL OF PUBLIC OPEN SPACE – LAND AT SPORTS GROUNDS AT CLIFTON STREET PRESTWICH AND SANDGATE ROAD PRESTWICH
Pursuant to section 123 (2A) of the Local Government Act 1972, The Metropolitan Borough of Bury hereby gives notice of its intention to dispose of Land at Clifton Street Prestwich being approximately 13,227sq m and Land at Sandgate Road Prestwich being approximately 47,900sq m . A copy of the plans showing the position of the land in question are available for inspection at the Town Hall, Knowsley Street, Bury, BL9 0SW.

This is a formal notice given insofar as the above described parcels of land consists or forms part of an open space for the purposes of section 123 (2A) of the Local Government Act 1972.

Further information or objections regarding the above should be made in writing and addressed to Parks and Countryside at Town Hall, Knowsley Street, Bury, BL9 0SW or by email to m.bent@bury.gov.uk to be received by no later than 4 August 2017.

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