Locals ramp up fight over Oval

A GROUP of Bellerive residents is preparing to campaign against the latest expansion plans for Blundstone Arena.

Cricket Tasmania wants approval for a $30 million redevelopment, with work starting by early next year to be ready for the 2015 World Cup.

In June, the Clarence City Council knocked back Cricket Tasmania's first proposal after a community campaign against a new entrance encroaching on the neighbouring park.

Save the Bellerive Beach Park Group organiser Joanne Marsh said the latest plans still intruded on the park.

"We're really concerned," Mrs Marsh said.

"We know powerful business interests are against us but there are lots of serious safety issues for us, including increased traffic, a new bus interchange and crowds spilling through the park.

"We're up against it but we're not going to give up.

"Once Cricket Tasmania lodges the development application with the council, the public has three weeks to launch some kind of response. We will be encouraging people to put in a submission."

Cricket Tasmania chairman Tony Harrison said that far from an intrusion into the park, the new plan involved a bigger park area.

"Apart from a small slice of land on Derwent St required for this entry, the entire redevelopment is restricted to within Cricket Tasmania's existing lease boundary," he said.

The extra area required for the new entrance was about 32 square metres.

However, Cricket Tasmania had offered to return about 120 square metres of its existing leased area for inclusion in the Bellerive Beach Park.

Mrs Marsh said the new entrance would affect a prime area of the park and the land Cricket Tasmania was proposing to return to the council was in the shadow of an existing grandstand.

Mr Harrison said the Blundstone Arena redevelopment, partly funded by a $15 million Federal Government grant, was essential to lure World Cup cricket and more AFL games to Hobart.

It involved a new grandstand, increasing the ground's capacity to 20,000 people.

"It will enable Tasmania to compete with other venues around Australia for top-class cricket and other sporting events," he said.

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