Pinner tennis club wants floodlighting on two more courts

West End Lawn Tennis Club is seeking to introduce floodlighting to more of its courts in Cuckoo Hill Road, Pinner, so that members can play longer into the evening.

The association has been turning youngsters away because it currently only has two courts out of six that can be illuminated at night - limiting court capacity - but a planning application lodged with Harrow Council seeks to increase this number to four, with backing from the Lawn Tennis Association.

The suggested shut-off time for the lights is 9.30pm in order for the club to hold inter-club and inter-county evening matches.

A previous floodlighting scheme was rejected by Harrow Council and the club lost its appeal against that decision just a few months ago. In this latest application, the eight lighting columns are shorter to mitigate some of the neighbour complaints.

The original planning appeal generated a 400-strong petition in favour of the plans - presented to the Labour MP for Harrow West, Gareth Thomas, who himself threw himself between the idea - as well as a letter of support from Kim James, the headteacher of West Lodge First School, in West End Lane, Pinner.