The meeting is on Wednesday
Councillors have been recommended to approve a new seven-a-side football pitch to avoid the controversial relocation of a village football club to make way for a giant water pipeline. The scheme for Huncoat United is a result of the £1.75billion project to upgrade the 70-year-old Haweswater Aqueduct which supplies water from the Lake District to Lancashire and Greater Manchester.
This would require major works at the park and the felling of trees angering local residents and councillors in both places. But after intensive negotiations a deal was agreed in August which will see United Utilities build a new pitch on Bolton Avenue Playing Fields in areas where their engineering work for the Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme will not cause disturbance.
“There are currently two football pitches within Bolton Avenue Playing Fields, . The approved construction compound will be sited in the location of the 7v7 football pitch, although the 11v11 pitch will not be affected.
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