A council hosted a public meeting to explain its ambitious plans to develop a new sports hub, but some of the attendees seem to have come away unimpressed. Tunbridge Wells council has listed the scheme, on the Hawkenbury Recreation Ground and adjoining land, as one of its “eight big projects” in its draft Local Plan. It intends to create a new sports hub and football “centre of excellence.” But despite the meeting at the Reformed Church in Hawkenbury last Thursday, the scheme is not going down well with local residents in nearby Sherborne Close, Cleeve Avenue and Chester Avenue, who fear the i…