Neighbours have shared their sadness over plans to partly demolish a Bowls club next to a popular park to build new apartments. The project would see the empty Bowls clubhouse in Addison Street, next to the Arboretum, turned into 29 apartments providing 56 bedrooms.
The Georgian-era Clubhouse would be refurbished and converted to residential apartments. However, the bowling green and more recent Victorian additions would be replaced with new buildings.
Locals were not convinced by the proposal, with a poster from the Arboretum Residents Association urging people to object to the plans for the 'beautiful' bowling green. Melvyn Mewton, 68, who has lived on Addison Street for 50 years and whose dad was a member of the club, said he was shocked by the new plans.
