Proposals for flood lighting at a sports club have been flatly rejected by the council – despite the majority of letters it received being in favour of the move.Trafford Council’s planning committee voted to fully refuse the application for lighting at Urmston Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club last week.The plan had been to install 12 floodlighting columns on the three existing astroturf tennis courts at the club.But the authority’s planning committee decided the application should be refused because its members believed “undue harm” would be caused to the residents of nearby Albany Court, blaming the levels of light emission and the prospective increased hours of noise and disturbance due to extended hours of play that would arise when the.
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