PETERSFIELD'S new mayor hopes that by next year council land will be sold for housing so that a start can be made on planning a youth football centre.
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Roads underwater as isolated flooding reported around Herald & Post areaDeveloper Kebbell Homes has paid for an option to buy the Petersfield Town Council land, if permission can be gained to build a 70-house plus estate on it.
Profit from the potential sale of a field between Barnfield Road and Penns Place could pay for pitches and a clubhouse on neighbouring land for Petersfield Town Juniors football club.
The newly-elected mayor, Petersfield town councillor Lesley Farrow, hopes that by next April the ambitious plan will be off the drawing board....
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