AN attempt to appeal the redevelopment of a Finsbury Park cricket pavilion was rejected as “invalid”.

Five Green councillors submitted a “call-in” request over the awarding of a contract of more than £1.7million to demolish and redevelop the cricket pavilion at Wray Crescent.

The Greens had tabled the request based on the grounds that it would cause “unnecessary” loss of trees at an “excessive cost”.

But the monitoring officer found this to be not specifically or directly linked to the contract award, and rejected the call-in.

The contracts has been awarded to T&B Contractors for a period of 14 months.

The call-in request had already been dismissed and was not heard at a scrutiny committee meeting this week, as was reported in the Tribune.