After intensive lobbying, Lambeth Council agreed at a meeting on 30th January 2008 that it should officially oppose this proposal. This is an important decision as it’s unusual for one council to oppose another prior to public consultation. The motion was passed as follows:

Tooting Triangle Field
Council notes the intention of LB Wandsworth to construct up to 12 five-a-side fenced and floodlit hard-surface football pitches on the Triangle Field, an area of Tooting Bec Common on the edge of Wandsworth used mainly by Lambeth residents in Streatham Hill, St Leonard’s and Thornton wards. 
Council opposes these plans and will take vigorous steps to campaign against the proposed development. 
Council instructs the Chief Executive to ask his opposite number at Wandsworth to drop this plan which would cause grave damage to the natural environment of the common and loss of metropolitan open land.

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