Scholars Drive multi games area

John Fareham and John Abbott are pressing for fulfilment of an undertaking, given as part of the application for planning permission to build Scholars Drive, to provide a multi-use games area.

Planning permission was granted in 2007 but the multi-use games area was not part of Scholars Drive as built. The Council’s Planning Committee agreed a Section 106 payment with the developers, whereby they would fund the multi-use games area, and this has been received, but the developers then asked the Council to let them off their obligation to build the games area. Some local residents would like to take possession of the land allocated for the games area and the solution which is currently being pursued involves the University being given the Section 106 money and in return giving Scholars Drive residents free use in perpetuity of the multi-use games area they have built and will in due course be marking up with courts. Residents using these facilities would have to register with the University but that will be free of charge.