I recently attended a meeting, along with about 50 local park users and tennis players at which Roger Ryan, the city council cabinet member with responsibility for leisure, answered questions about the city council's application to its own planning committee to reduce Heigham Park's current 10 grass tennis courts to three and to turn these into all-weather, flood-lit hard courts.
Norwich City Council's plan to replace, in partnership with the Lawn Tennis Association, the 10 grass tennis courts in Heigham Park with all-weather floodlit courts is ill-conceived. Quite apart from the issue of needlessly spoiling this green and historic site, there are two major flaws in the plan.
Norwich City Council's plan to replace, in partnership with the Lawn Tennis Association, the 10 grass tennis courts in Heigham Park with all-weather floodlit courts is ill-conceived. Quite apart from the issue of needlessly spoiling this green and historic site, there are two major flaws in the plan.
