Plans for artificial pitch at cricket club approved

Planning permission is granted for an artificial cricket pitch at Aston Ingham Cricket Club

Plans have been approved to install an artificial cricket pitch at a sports club in Herefordshire.

The application was made by Aston Ingham Cricket Club Committee for a non-turf cricket pitch with a length of 30 metres and a width of 2.74 metres on Mill Meadow.

Herefordshire Council planning officers said the pitch would not have any highways impact, nor adversely affect the surrounding landscape.

They did, however, recommend a condition that any external lighting be limited as the site was located within an area of so-called dark landscape, which supports nature conservation interests including nocturnal protected species.