Hi from Wrexham Fans!

We and "fans united" would love to have your help and support to protect our ground from any chance of future property development.

www.redpassion.co.uk/petition

Not everyone knows Wrexham's Racecourse ground is ...

"The Oldest International Football Stadium In The World", still in use today.

[Good one to remember for pub quiz night]

The Spireites have good affection for games with Wrexham particularly the memorable quarter Final of the F.A.Cup which broke our hearts and so nearly saw you go all the way to the final and you deserved to after your fantastic performance at Old Trafford.

We need your valued support and help. The club has been sold to a parent company, who are acting as property developer and developing the car park land, the club used to own as an asset. This by its nature needs to encroach close to the stadium with the result; the kop end terrace has had to be closed until the development has been completed and when we understand the Kop end should be rebuilt.

We have been assured a substantial percentage of the profits from the development will be paid back into Wrexham Football Club, rather than just retained by the property developer. We are hopeful, though aware the section 106 guarantee we were promised would be submitted to planning, did not materialise and planning permission given irrespective. This has left some concerns and anxiety amongst some of the fans as this now relies on trust.

For the future and to protect the interests of the fans, and avoid any chance the Racecourse ground could ever be developed on, we are lobbying the Wrexham Borough Councillors to secure the Racecourse as an international ground and stadium, as a designated reserved matter within the Local Development Plan. LDP. It could then never be sold as development land or be built on for supermarkets or more flats and the like.

To do this we have a mission to secure 10,500 names on the petition, the current capacity of the Racecourse Ground. We will use this to lobby the Councillors at the LDP planning hearing in the autumn. The response has been fantastic and in less than four weeks, we have secured 5,930 signatures from fans of more than 30 clubs across the UK and even as far as Grampus Eight in Tokyo!

Wrexham and Chesterfield have had some entertaining games over the years at the Racecourse and your support would be magnificent for us.

This petition has been created by Red Passion, the website community of Wrexham fans who connect up around the world 24 hours a day.

The petition is also in keeping with the policy of the Wrexham Supporters Trust to protect the Racecourse in the LDP.

Thanks !