Swansea Council may face legal action after it awarded a lease to a football club for playing fields by a housing estate and allowed the club to enclose the fields with a fence. Barristers representing residents of Waunarlwydd who are unhappy with the situation have sent a "pre-action protocol" letter to the authority for a judicial review of the lease decision.
The council said it followed the correct process and that the football club, Waunarlwydd Galaxy, secured the necessary permission to erect the fence to counter vandalism and dog fouling. The football club, which has 350 junior players alone, said everything it had done had been lawful.
The legal letter came to light at a meeting of full council after Suzanne Jeffreys, of Waunarlwydd Playing Fields Action Group, presented a petition signed by more than 500 people opposing the fence. You can get more Swansea news and other story updates by subscribing to our newsletters here.
