da cassino： The MCC committee has turned down a revised £75m offer for a downgraded development at the Nursery End at Lord’s.
ESPNcricinfo staff23-May-2013The MCC committee has turned down a revised £75m offer for a downgraded development at the Nursery End at Lord’s.The MCC committee received a report from the chief executive, Derek Brewer, into a new proposal from the Rifkind Levy Partnership, from whom MCC leases a strip of land at the Nursery.A club statement said that the committee rejected the development proposals for four reasons: The visual and environmental impact would damage the character and ambience of Lord’s; Loss of operational space essential for the running of Lord’s on major match days; MCC would lose control of about 10% of the ground to third parties It would inhibit the MCC Masterplan – the preferred proposal which includes moving the Nursery Ground towards Wellington Road and therefore onto the leasehold land proposed for development.
The MCC Masterplan video can be seen here