Press Release: Floodlit Sport Comes to Wanstead
Wanstead and Snaresbrook Cricket Club is proud to reveal the result of secret year-long negotiations that have resulted in the arrival of Floodlit International Beach-volleyball (FIB) at Overton Drive.
In a three-way deal involving the MCC and Redbridge Council, Overton Drive is to be used as Preferred Turf Alternative for Kinetic Events (P-TAKE) for all FIB fixtures.
Announcing the deal at a press conference, Mr H Oakes of the MCC said, "This is just the first in a host of new initiatives we wish to take, under the terms of Sport England's Diversity Unity Progress Equity (DUPE) programme."
Responding, Ms Jo Kerr from Redbridge Sports Commissioning and Management (SCAM) team, was pleased to welcome the MCC, adding that the proposed 60 metre floodlight pylons may cause some loss of amenity to neighbouring clubs but objections could be overcome by installing Cellular Overhead Nokia (CON) mobile phone masts in each tower.
A beaming Martin Pluck, for the club, summarised by saying, "This has to be a win-win situation for everybody. We are very sorry about the harsh shadows our floodlights will throw over Linkside Tennis Club, but now we can easily afford to install an 80 metre high screen all around that tennis club, so that they are totally enclosed. Any surplus profits from the FIB deal will be invested in apres-cricket facilities for middle-aged and elderly members of the club. Those pesky kids have had it far too good for far too long. About time we seniors got our own sauna and helipad."
An artist's impression of Wanstead's Overton Drive Ground with Floodlights. The obscured Linkside Tennis Club is in the lower right foreground.