Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt has won planning permission for a sporting pavilion at May’s Bounty Cricket Ground in Basingstoke.

The practice, which is headquartered in the Hampshire town, said that in addition to providing a striking new home for the area’s rugby, football and squash clubs as well as the cricketing community, the venue would be able to host county cricket fixtures.

Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt said the building’s design consisted of two carved-brick blocks that came together to form a plinth that housed changing room spaces, while an external terrace wrapped around the first-floor social spaces providing 360-degree views of the surrounding sports pitches.

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