Uppingham Town Cricket Club
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Uppingham Town Cricket Club
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As most of you will know by now the club is looking towards the future & hoping to buy & develop a new ground of our own. At present our club is on Uppingham School property & although we still have a very good relationship with the school & have had over the many years that we have been tenants, the fact remains that we could be asked to leave at very short notice & as the school continues to prosper & grow we feel that this is increasingly likely. The club buildings are now starting to get well past their best would cost
us a lot of money to update (the work needed to repair The first problem with a project such as this is to find a piece of ground
that is suitable for a cricket ground (ie flatish) that is not too far out of
the town.
That would mean we would have a field. No square, no outfield, no pavilion/changing rooms, just a field ! On 13th December planners at Rutland County Council backed our request to turn the agricultural land into two pitches & the plans received unanimous support. Charlie Scott & Dick Reeve have already done an amazing amount of work on the clubs development plan & our future plans have been well received by the Leicestershire cricket board & the ECB who both support our plans & who hopefully will both make funds available once we have secured the purchase of the ground. More updates soon. The futures bright. The futures UTCC !
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the changing rooms a
couple of seasons ago cost over 5k) & the school won't allow us to have a
permanent (brick built) building so we are limited to wooden, portakabin type
structure. Although this is going to cost an awful lot of money we feel that it
is almost a case of now or never. Due to the amount of games that we are
playing in a season & that we are trying to further develop our junior & youth
cricket sides we are looking to have ground that would have two playing areas
with a 12 wicket square & an 8 wicket square.
Although there are landowners that regard us as a much needed part of
the local community & would be willing to actually give us a piece of land for
the new ground, none of those own any land that is suitable for a cricket
ground. We have now found some land that would be ideal ( to the south of
Leicester Road in Uppingham opposite Shepherds Way )& that the owner is
willing to sell, albeit for quite a considerable sum of money, & are in the
process of signing an agreement to buy with the owner so that if we can raise
the money, the land is ours!