From Focus, 5, the newsletter of Warminster Liberal Party, published November 1989:
Comment
The Council are at it again. Doctor Alcock’s Recreation Ground was created in 1912. The Council in 1950 built Alcock Crest on it, so to replace it the Council created the Fore Street Playing Field which was called Frank Moody’s Field – on land given by the granddaughters and was ‘dedicated forever as a children’s pleasure ground’.
So, the Council let it run down, removed the goalposts, marked out a rugby pitch and are going to rent it to the Rugby Club for its senior team.
Surely the Council should not be charging for recreational facilities and should be supplying proper facilities for the children at Fore Street and a proper rugby facility elsewhere.
Or are their bad policy decisions of the past about greenfield sites coming home to roost? It is a shame that we never seem to know what is going on until the workmen actually turn up to do the job.