A Tameside cricket club ‘at the heart of the community’ will be allowed to build homes on land it owns in a move which it says will guarantee the club’s future and ‘resurrect’ youth cricket.
Stalybridge St Pauls Cricket Club has been granted permission by the council’s planning committee to demolish a function room and allow a developer to construct four new houses.
Head of planning Melanie Hale told a meeting of the planning committee that the land, located off Gorse Hill Road in Dukinfield, was an area of protected open space but the building currently in place was in a ‘poor state of repair’.
