Blow to Cricket Hopes As Expansion Plans Refused ; No International Games Can Be Held in Future and Club May Decide to Leave City

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › January 12, 2012

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GLOUCESTERSHIRE Cricket Club's Pounds 10 million redevelopment plans have been thrown out by council planners. Members of Bristol City Council's planning committee refused the application to expand the 122-year-old club's Nevil Road ground after a lengthy debate last night.

The decision by six votes to four means Bristol will not be able to host international cricket in the future and the club itself may leave the city.

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Blow to Cricket Hopes As Expansion Plans Refused ; No International Games Can Be Held in Future and Club May Decide to Leave City

The plans were thrown out not because of the expansion of the ground itself - up to a maximum capacity of 17,500 seats - but rather the tower block of 147 flats that would help p...

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