FURIOUS campaigners are threatening to take to the streets after a key document suggested housing could be built at Five Acres.

Jamie Elsmore fears council leaders are about to ride roughshod over their vision for a landmark leisure complex which includes a Dennis Potter theatre.

Campaign group FANS - Five Acres Is Not For Sale - have won pledges from several bodies that their plans, which have the support of Melvyn Bragg and Joan Bakewell, will be taken seriously.

But in a report to go to Cabinet tomorrow comments from Coun Brian Robinson appear to suggest the site has been earmarked for mixed use, including housing, if the college relocates to Cinderford.

The allocations development plan report has sparked fury in Coleford where FANS have been working with the council's scrutiny committee and the Homes and Communities Agency which owns the land.

"I am absolutely dismayed that the Cabinet is ignoring the recommendations of its own councillors and the concerns of the local community," said Jamie.

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