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Lord's Cricket Ground Reveals Renovation Blueprint; MCC Yet To Approve Plan

An ambitious "Blueprint for Lord's," the "home of cricket for 200 years, reveals plans to develop the Nursery and Pavilion Ends as well as building a museum, library, sports clinics and tennis courts," according to Nick Johnstone of the London TELEGRAPH. It also "includes proposals for two 11-storey blocks of flats overlooking the Nursery Ground, which could generate enough to fund changes at the ground" worth £200M ($322.4M), including a £100M ($161.2M) windfall for the Marylebone Cricket Club. The plans have not been approved by the MCC, which owns Lord's, but "are likely to renew a long-running row within the club about the future of the ground," which has been on its current site since 1814. The MCC has been "under pressure in recent years to update and replace its outdated facilities." It wants to "develop the ground itself, on a stand-by-stand basis, using its own funds without relying on residential developments." Some of its members, however, "are in favour of a major redevelopment, funded by residential development, and have expressed concerns that MCC is not well enough funded to regenerate the ground by itself" and bring it up to int'l cricketing standards. Former England captain David Gower, an MCC member, said that the blueprint addressed "many of the 'aesthetic' concerns MCC had previously raised and said he would like to see it realised." Gower: "I think the Morley plans at both ends of the ground are very good. The last plans were too big, but the scale of this proposal is reasonable. I would like to see the plans realized. It’s definitely worth having a very, very strong look at, with a very open mind" (TELEGRAPH, 10/19).

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