A thoughtful but negative reaction to the idea of installing a MUGA by a group of, I believe thirty people, was presented in the form of a petition to Simon Hughes, the SLDC housing manager, at the meeting last Thursday at Dale Street School.
The views of this group had clearly not been taken on board by the Honeypot Community Group group led by Dawn Wright who has already been referred to before.
The group of objectors was led by a very rational and polite Malcolm Howitt of Lund Terrace. Some good points were raised even though this group could be seen as a NIMBY* group, which lead to some unpleasant emotional exchanges between a few members of the two groups.
The arguments came from a group of people that included some with first-hand experience of the grass site that had been chosen for the MUGA - next to Rascals. It was felt that the poor visibility to the surrounding area would lead to undesirable groups of teenagers congregating in a similar way as had already been observed in the past by people living in houses that overlooked the site.
It was felt that this behaviour would be aggravated by the size of the MUGA facility, to the extent of attracting even greater numbers of troublemakers because of the sophistication of the equipment.
*NIMBY = Not In My Back Yard
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