According to the Coventry Observer's Les Reid, a Coventry City Council planning officer emailed Wasps' advisors to see if they could justify the loss of football and netball pitches at the Alan Higgs Centre so that Wasps could turn the complex into a training facility.
"The email written by planning officer Kurt Russell to Robert Gilmore of Wasps’ consultants Oxalis Planning on June 6, states: “Hi Rob. I’ve been looking through the application that came in whilst I was on leave and I can’t see any information regarding the loss of the existing football and netball pitches and the relocation of these facilities either within the Allard Way site or elsewhere.
“The loss of the facilities was always going to be a sticking point, and this seems to be being realised by the early objections that we have received.
“Please can you provide some information on this, which will help us to justify the proposal to planning committee when the time comes?”