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DOZENS of angry residents have objected to a football club s plans to fence off a playing field. In March Accrington Stanley FC agreed a 100-year lease for the King George V Playing Fields in Royds Avenue on the Hollins Estate from Hyndburn Council at a cost of £550,000. It will be used as the club s first ever training ground. Now it has applied for planning permission to build a 15 foot high green powder-coated metal boundary fence around 40,315 square feet of the site to protect new pitches. The application says this will provide an enclosed training ground adding: The area will be accessed through various gates within the fence. ....