MCC reveals its master plans for the new look of Lord's cricket ground

The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is planning to give the iconic and historic Lord’s Cricket Ground a brand new look. Recently, the MCC was quite interested in a committee proposal in favour of the club’s £194 million “Masterplan”, which can be finished by 2032. This development will be for the Compton and Edrich stands on the either side of the Media Centre. It will also focus on expanding the overall capacity of the ground by providing several more thousand seats.

However, the above “Masterplan” does have a rival developer who proposed to build two blocks of flats next to the Nursery Ground. But the members of the MCC were quite clear with the previous plan and did not want any blocks of flats to be built at their ground. As per reports, it was revealed that a total of 90.5 percent majority votes backed the ‘Masterplan’ at the special general meeting in London.

“This is a landmark day for MCC and for the future of Lord’s,” said MCC Chairman Gerald Corbett as quoted by Sportstar.

MCC is abundantly clear

The MCC is a cricket club founded in 1787 and since 1814 based at the Lord’s Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John’s Wood, London, England. The MCC members were absolutely clear that they are backing the ‘Masterplan’ and do not want any blocks of flats built at the ‘Home of Cricket’. “MCC members have made their feelings abundantly clear – they do not want blocks of flats to be built at their ground – and they have backed the committee’s recommendation to pursue the updated Masterplan,” added the Chairman.

Corbett also stated that the other plan to built the blocks of flat is not a good deal for the club keeping the atmospheric conditions in mind. “The alternative to the Masterplan would have been a bad deal for the club commercially and a bad deal for the architectural atmosphere and ambience of Lord’s,” concluded Corbett.