Neighbours complain about 'blinding' lights as cricket club plans to turn on floodlights more often

Neighbours complain about 'blinding' lights as cricket club plans to turn on floodlights more often

A cricket club’s plans in Bristol to apply for permission to switch on floodlights for longer are angering neighbours living nearby. Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is based on Nevil Road in Ashley Down and is trying to increase the hours when floodlights can be turned on.

Bristol City Council is due to decide this week whether to grant permission. If so, then the club could use floodlights for more than the currently allowed 15 days a year from 10am and 7pm, to allow matches to carry on when there is a lack of daylight between April and September.

The plans will be considered by councillors on the development control A committee on Wednesday, August 13. Several local residents wrote