By John Hunter
DARLINGTON cricket club have played on their home ground at Feethams since 1866, but their traditional home is currently at the centre of a noise dispute with its neighbours.
Residents of a new estate have taken exception to the “noise from bat on ball” and “the effort of batting and bowling” from practice nets placed along the boundary.
A retrospective planning application has prompted a string of objections with complaints from neighbours accusing the new nets as having ‘ruined their lives’, while others are unhappy at the ‘intrusiv...