“We already have a four-metre hedgerow and the balls already go over that,” Marsden said.
“Six to eight times a game our balls go over the hedgerow. That’s going to hit a house, hit a car and who is going to pay for that?”
Mr Marsden said there was already housing on one side of ground and he did not want to see problems with that repeated with the new homes.
Planning committee member councillor Naveed Alam said he shared the club’s concern.
He said: “I have to admit when I saw this application, and a rugby club in the middle of a housing estate, I had images of projectiles going through kitchen windows.”
Mr Marsden told the meeting some residents near the ground already trespassed onto it.
“They treat it as their own park,” he said.
“It causes trespass, security issues, vandalism. They have golf games on it and barbecues.
“There’s a park only 50 yards away and nobody seems to use it.”
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