vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
So, the situation of my local club has become front page news this week. We're under the jurisdiction of Boroondara Council, and as of this year we've been banned from playing T20 at our ground.
Twenty20 cricket banned from Melbourne parks | Herald Sun
To put some background to the situation, our ground borders a main road, which has a four metre high fence protecting it, and a quieter road which has a three metre fence protecting it, and a number of cars park in this street. When the fences were put up, they were both supposed to be four metres, and now when we play on the side pitch near the quiet road it can get a fair few balls on the road (reckon on average four a day).
Unfortunately for us, the council's risk assessor comes along to one game a year, and happened to come along to watch us in a One Day game where we played Brad Hodge on that side pitch near the road, and he smashed us everywhere and was targetting the small boundary, and hence a fair few balls went on the road. The council came back to us after that and told us that we're not able to play T20s at our home ground.
Basically, any ideas (esp. with a few legal people around here) on what we can/could do to try and help our situation and get back onto the home ground. One of the biggest problems is not the parked cars but cars driving past.
Twenty20 cricket banned from Melbourne parks | Herald Sun
To put some background to the situation, our ground borders a main road, which has a four metre high fence protecting it, and a quieter road which has a three metre fence protecting it, and a number of cars park in this street. When the fences were put up, they were both supposed to be four metres, and now when we play on the side pitch near the quiet road it can get a fair few balls on the road (reckon on average four a day).
Unfortunately for us, the council's risk assessor comes along to one game a year, and happened to come along to watch us in a One Day game where we played Brad Hodge on that side pitch near the road, and he smashed us everywhere and was targetting the small boundary, and hence a fair few balls went on the road. The council came back to us after that and told us that we're not able to play T20s at our home ground.
Basically, any ideas (esp. with a few legal people around here) on what we can/could do to try and help our situation and get back onto the home ground. One of the biggest problems is not the parked cars but cars driving past.