HowZat GCCC

HowZat? is a campaign group formed by local residents from Bishopston and Ashley Down. The objective of the group is to challenge and revise the stadium expansion plans put forward by Gloucestershire County Cricket Club (GCCC).

Following Bristol City Council’s refusal of GCCC’s previous application (11/02609/F) to develop the Cricket Ground on 11 January the club has now submitted slightly revised plans (12/01237/F):

- The only significant change has been to reduce the height of the blocks of flats to 6 storeys. At 18.4m this would be 5m higher than the current wavy Jessop stand. Linden Homes would build 147 1, 2 and 3 bedroom flats, the same number as before, by extending the block nearest the school.

- A small (but inadequate) improvement has been made to the carbon reduction figures by adding a few more PV panels to the roof.

See how you can respond to the plans here.

Other details of the plans are unchanged:

- 7,500 permanent seats (scaled back from 18,500 in the previous 2009 application) – mainly on the College side of the ground

- Temporary seating to be used on the Kennington Avenue side for big matches to increase capacity to 17,000 (no permanent seating on this side for the foreseeable future)

- The building of the extended Pavilion, Media Centre and 400 place Conference Centre at the Lancashire Road end of the ground

- The 147 flats would have basement parking for only 111 cars.

See details of the previous (2011) GCCC application here