Exactly Pedro - The field its shielded from a few houses in Reeds Lane by a row of trees. The place is only used on for a few hours at weekends and for training during the light summer/autumn evenings

There is a longer article in the WSCT paper version and the "facts" are unclear.

It’s difficult to understand what the objections would be - more traffic? The only sound bites coming from the councillors are ambivalent; they are not going to get caught on a contentious issue that they may have to stick their head above the parapet.

As I said a bunch of Teflon coated handwringers, who would not spot an opportunity for doing something for the community if it came up and smacked them on the face