Peter Bills evaluates the ongoing struggle of Bath and their plans to develop a modern ground on the site of the Rec in The Independent.
"Bath Rugby Club has been conducting an ongoing campaign for years now about whether they can build on the Recreation Ground. The problems, quintessentially, are these. The land was laid aside for the use ‘of all citizens of the city’ according to the original charter.
"That means people who want to play cricket – Somerset have played first class cricket there for many years – or play football or simply run around with their children or dogs. When I last checked, the original document did not state ‘for the use solely of rugby nuts’.
"The second issue is this. Keen as a lot of people are about rugby in this West of England city, by no means all of them are so besotted with the game that they want to see a vast new modern construction erected right in the heart of this Georgian architectural masterpiece. Sacrilege is not too strong a word to describe such plans, in many people’s minds."
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