A hotly contested football World Cup fan park has been given the go-ahead at a South Liverpool cricket club.
Despite more than a dozen people turning up at the Cunard Building to oppose the plans, Sefton Park Cricket Club has been awarded a premises licence to stage two events in the Autumn and Winter in a bid to raise vital funds. Among its proposals are an Oktoberfest-style German beer festival beginning later this month.
With the granting of the licence by Liverpool Council, the cricket club will now move forward with its plans to screen matches from the football World Cup to be held in November and December on the Lower Cricket Playing Field towards Mossley Hill Drive. The club’s bid, heard by members of Liverpool Council’s licensing and gambling sub-committee last week, was scaled down after initial proposals sought to operate until the New Year.
