Council helps fund vital improvements to historic cricket club
Funds that will help one of the oldest cricket clubs in England make vital improvements to its building were approved by Three Rivers District councillors.
Full Council agreed at a meeting on Tuesday 9 December to allocate funds from its Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) pot – a charge on new developments in the district – to the Rickmansworth Sports & Rickmansworth Cricket Club in Park Road, which was founded in 1787.
The £167,200 will be used to improve drainage at the site, provide new changing facilities, improve disabled access as well as purchase new cricket nets.
Cllr Stephen Giles-Medhurst OBE, Leader of Three Rivers District Council, said: "I am delighted that we agreed to use developer funding to help one of the oldest cricket clubs in the country make vital improvements to their grounds. It is right that we use CIL funding to ensure the club continue to flourish and to support successful local teams for another century.”
Elsewhere in the meeting, councillors approved a £138,000 CIL application from Beryl Bikes as part of its bike sharing scheme in Three Rivers. The funds will be used to expand the existing scheme in Watford and Croxley Green with the purchase 36 new e-bikes as well as install 13 new line painted bays in areas in Rickmansworth, Leavesden and South Oxhey.