Sports Ground - Pasture Lane

The sports ground is mainly used for organised team games. It houses the Hathern Band building and the Hathern Football Club pavilion and associated football pitch. It does not have open public access, although it has Pasture Lane on one side, and a public footpath along another. It is enclosed by hedgerows on all four sides with ditches to three of them.

The ground is covered by an existing Council maintenance schedule (mowing and weed control) and the pitch is well tended by Hathern Football Club. The boundary hedgerows, trees and ditches are, like Hathern Park, subject only to reactive maintenance.

Changes have been proposed to car parking – any alteration needs to take environmental implications into account.

Remedial and Improvement Work
The hedge boundary between the school and the sports ground is in a poor state. Essential work needed in the near future (winter) is:

• Clear litter
• Remove elder
• Lay hedge
• Prune ash to make standard hedge tree.
• Surgery required on willows at far end.
• Dispose of brash by burning on site, or hiring a chipper.

Suggested improvement work:

• Create wildflower area between school fence and hedge.
• Plant with ‘naturescape hedgerow seed mix’