{"id":22709,"date":"2018-10-19T15:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T14:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=22709"},"modified":"2018-10-19T15:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T14:22:22","slug":"lords-expansion-could-see-cricket-ground-reach-30000-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/lords-expansion-could-see-cricket-ground-reach-30000-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord&#8217;s expansion could see cricket ground reach 30,000 capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Westminster City Council have received a planning application for an expansion of Lord&#8217;s Cricket Ground which would see the capacity surpass 30,000.<\/h3>\n<p>The redevelopment plans submitted by Marylebone Cricket Club would see the Compton and Edrich stands in the Nursery End of the ground extended to three tiers.<\/p>\n<p>The plans include a walkway that would pass under the Media Centre with a view of the Nursery End, and will increase the ground&#8217;s capacity by 2,500.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, the work will begin in August 2019 after The Ashes are finished and would be completed in 2021 if all goes to plan.<\/p>\n<p>Architectural firm Wilkinson Eyre won the rights to complete the work.<\/p>\n<p>Guy Lavender, chief executive and secretary of MCC, said: &#8220;Wilkinson Eyre presented a beautifully crafted design of two new stands, which pays great respect to the existing Media Centre and yet delivers sufficient height to accommodate significantly more public seats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Charlie Bradley I Subbing: Lee Pearson<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westminster City Council have received a planning application for an expansion of Lord&#8217;s Cricket Ground which would see the capacity surpass 30,000. The redevelopment plans submitted by Marylebone Cricket Club would see the Compton and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":22864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,116],"tags":[1612,2034,2119,2777,3844,6918],"class_list":["post-22709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sport","tag-cricket","tag-edrich","tag-england","tag-ground","tag-lords","tag-wilkinson-eyre"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}