Years ago (so I may be out of the loop) the current astroturf area used to be used every day/night of the week for kids and adult football matches/training. It could also be used as a full length pitch if required,if I remember correctly. I presume that's still the case. So they would get rid of an existing astroturf area and replace it with another one and this will increase income. How? Do they know there is going to be additional demand for it? What's to stop them turning the current pitch of the football club into an astroturf one? Is it the building of houses they are more interested in? If so, once that's finished and they have made their money, why would they care about the football club?