Flats plan held up by cricket balls can go ahead
Following submission of the initial plans, the sporting body warned that a risk assessment had underestimated the power of some of the players' shots, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.However, the organisation has now said that high fencing proposed between the cricket ground and the flats would be sufficient to protect residents and the property."The applicant has now provided a plan showing the location and specification of the proposed ball stop mitigation," Sport England said in a letter to the council."This also includes details of how the ball-stop mitigation will be managed and maintained."The fence, if properly maintained, would "be enough to prevent injury to people or property", the organisation said.
The prime minister used the delay to the scheme as an example of how bureaucracy can hold up development. During a speech in Hull in March he said: "There's an office conversion in Bingley, which as you know, is in Yorkshire. That is an office conversion that will create 139 homes."But now the future of that is uncertain because the regulator was not properly consulted on the power of cricket balls."That's 139 homes. Now, just think of the people, the families, the individuals who want those homes, to buy those homes to make their life and now they're held up."
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