It will be used by pupils from the adjacent Claires Court Junior Boys School at The Ridgeway, near Cannon Lane, and the Senior Boys School. Privately owned North Maidenhead cricket club will also only use it during the summer months on a Friday night, and on Saturdays and Sundays.

Speaking at the meeting, manager James Wilding said: “Following the forced closure of North Maidenhead Cricket Club, Claires Court has lost access to its two cricket grounds in the summer, the outdoor grounds in the winter and the support club training facilities.

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“The North Maidenhead Cricket Club has been welcoming players for many years. Now homeless, we have the opportunity to reciprocate their friendship and secure their 100 year history of playing for the club.

But the school and the council have had a shaky relationship since the local authority rejected plans to build a new campus in order to move its senior boys’ and girls’ schools to the site of its junior boys’ school.

He also wanted to build a sports pavilion on the site, which would have been shared with Maidenhead Hockey Club.

A planning appeal hearing was triggered in 2020 in hopes of overturning the council’s decision, but the planning inspectorate dismissed the school’s case due to the impact of the development on the green belt and the opening.

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Maidenhead Planning Committee Chairman Cllr Phil Haseler (Con: Cox Gren), who was one of the opponents of the previously rejected plans, said: ‘It is incredibly pleasing to see this planning request come forward and to Seeing in the local press what made their private club homeless and had to withdraw from the league this year had an incredible and horrific effect on North Maidenhead Cricket Club and Claires Court School.

“I am fully in favor of this despite my planning history on this site.”