Plans for a second cricket pitch at a successful Pembrokeshire club to let it “future-proof” its growth have been submitted to the county council. In an application to Pembrokeshire County Council, Chris Richards, on behalf of Cresselly Cricket Club, is seeking permission to convert a field to a second pitch at the club.
A supporting statement says: “The Committee at Cresselly Cricket Club over the past five years has been extensively promoting the game of cricket particularly aiming at grass roots level in the local community. Our approach has been extremely successful and as a result we currently have four senior teams, ladies team, 10 junior teams, together with the All Stars/Dynamos Programme. As a result of our success we have to ground share, but we are finding this increasingly difficult, so our aspiration of the club is to have its own designated second cricket pitch alongside our existing facility. This will provide more playing opportunities and enable us to be in control of the second pitch, but more importantly future proof and support our continued growth without reliance on other clubs who are also expanding and may want their facility for their own use in the future. We have been in negotiations with the Cresselly Estate who owns the land, and they fully support the proposal, together with the neighbouring tenant.”
It says the land will only be used as a cricket pitch with no permanent buildings being constructed, other than a single artificial cricket wicket in the middle of the site, which will be removed if it becomes vacant, along with a timber stock proof fence on the northern boundary separating the proposed cricket pitch and the existing agricultural land.
It finishes: “We as a club are fortunate to have ample parking at our current pitch so it is proposed that users of the second pitch will park in our existing car park and walk down the farm track to the pitch. We may provide a second pedestrian access in the future.”
The application will be considered by county planners at a later date.
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