The playing field was donated to the people of theBorough of Hyde for recreation by Newton Mill Ltd.[1] in 1973, but had acovenant restricting their use as a "recreation ground for the use of the residents of Hyde".[2]
The fields are currently subject to a dispute regarding their future use. Tameside Council is proposing the sale of two of the fields, subject to the lifting of the covenant. There is a local group campaigning to retain the fields for public use.[3][4]
^"The Corporation (The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Hyde) hereby covenants with the Grantors (Newton Mill Ltd) that the Corporation will use the land hereby conveyed as a recreation ground for the use of the residents of Hyde aforesaid and district and to be known asWaldorf Playing Fields only PROVIDED ALWAYS that in the event of the Corporation requiring the said land to be used for school purposes only then the Corporation will provide within the boundaries of Hyde a similar plot of land of similar size for the purposes of a recreation ground to be so named as aforesaid and that this covenant shall apply to such substituted land as aforesaid, but without this present proviso"
