MEMBERS of Pendle Croquet Club are once again on tenterhooks waiting to hear if they will be able to move home.

The club is currently trying to raise up to £100,000 for a new home after they were asked to leave their current base at Nelson and Colne College.

The club was told earlier this year they would be able to set up home in Victory Park, Barnoldswick, but the site has proved unsuitable. Another site in the park was also turned down.

Now the club have asked the council if they can move to Earby where they want to lease council-owned land in Cemetery Road.

The club has played at the college since 1986 but must move out by the end of this year to make way for development of the site.

At a meeting of the West Craven Committee councillors approved plans for four croquet courts close to the tennis court in the park, but the club said it had been asked to share facilities which would not be suitable.

The club will receive some funding from the Croquet Association and Awards for All and is hoping several other applications for grants will be successful in the bid to raise the expected £100,000 cost of the move.

The club's John Beech said: "It is very frustrating waiting to hear what the council's decision will be but we just have to keep our fingers crossed. Hopefully once we have heard about the grants we have applied for the money should not be a huge obstacle."

The proposal for the Earby site will be discussed by councillors at a meeting of the West Craven Committee at the Mount Zion Baptist Church at 7pm tomorrow.