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Lord’s lights up
By Will last year, at the end of January Add your comment below
Lord’s announced today that Westminster council have granted them permission to erect retractable floodlights. It’s a huge step forward for one of the world’s most iconic grounds, particularly given its location, and they’ve had difficulty (understandably) with the Westminster locals.
Lord's proposed new floodlighting
Thanks to the interweb and the openness of such things, you can read all about the planning process at Westminster Council’s site. Everything – all the documents, proposals, images – is available, and it makes for interesting reading for fans and locals alike.
The “review” (basically a letter of persuasion by MCC to the council) is worth a look (PDF) as is this scetch detailing the height of the structures in relation to the scoreboard. My Dad was an architect; why did I never find all this interesting when he’d bore me senseless with his own drawings? Probably because they were of petrol stations and not havens like Lord’s.
The company entrusted by the MCC is Abacus, who did Stanford’s lighting (which was controversial – remember all those dropped catches in the jamboree last year?) and at the ground in Kanpur. The difficulty Lord’s and other cricket grounds face is reaching a compromise between illuminating the ball at night, and preventing light spilling onto other people’s houses. Westminster seem to be happy; given how clever MCC have been in marrying the old (pavilion) with the new (media centre) in recent times, it’ll be fascinating to see how they work these new lights in.
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