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Oval cricket ground

from Cathy (cathyvpreece@aol.com)

Oval cricket ground

Breaking News from Vauxhall, Kennington & the Oval website

http://www.vauxhallandkennington.org.uk/

Updated 17 June 2003

Local residents are now campaigning very actively against plans to redevelop the Harleyford Road end of the Oval cricket ground. Surrey County Cricket Club want to build a 26.5 metre (86 foot) stand and residents say that this is totally out of scale with its surroundings, will create a canyon effect along a busy trunk road, and remove sunlight from a great number of local residents' homes.

It looks suspiciously as though the club is taking a "them and us" to their unfortunate neighbours. The local community welcomes the redevelopment of the ground but believes that it should be opened up and turned out. Instead, they claim the proposed new stand would in effect present a blank wall to the local community, who feel that they have been ridden roughshod over. It will be interesting to see the reaction of the local planning committee when it meets on 24 June.

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For details of the Planning Application Report, go to:
Planning Agenda - Page 236
http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/intradoc/groups/public/documents/agenda/020101.pdf
Released: 13 June, 2003 11:01
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