SIR - I am a pensioner now and since I was a small child, the Cinderella Ground has always been a sports field to be proud of, excellent football pitch, cricket pitch, bowls, tennis, tended by groundsmen and in the corner a beautiful pavilion.

Not so now. The football matches and the cricket have stopped, the groundsmen are long gone, the grass is overgrown and the pavilion has fencing around it because it has been abandoned.

I believe the conservation order placed on the area is to be lifted and the pavilion is to be demolished.

I always thought some kind of covenant existed restricting building on the site. I pray that one of the few open spaces left in St John's will stay just that and not be given over to housing.

A HALE, St John's, Worcester.