THE future of a green space in the heart of Cricklade will be considered at a Wiltshire County Council meeting today.

Campaigners have been fighting to prevent a children's play area in Bath Road from being sold for housing development.

The cabinet favours plans by Westlea Housing Association, which wants to build homes for the elderly next to existing sheltered flats Heberden House.

The proposals include some space for a play area.

But campaigners say any development would destroy a community meeting place close to the town centre and deny children a space to play.

Jo Scampton, 32, of Deansfield, is spearheading a campaign to save the land.

She said: "We have mixed feelings about this meeting. On one hand people are saying the development is for a good cause, but I don't see why they have to develop there at all.

"Once you build on green space, you lose it.

"It is a slippery slope. It doesn't make sense."

The council is deciding what to do with the land after the Cricklade library was moved from the site to the Ockwells Building in the High Street last year.