Residents whose homes back onto Fenner’s cricket ground in Cambridge are alarmed after learning part of the land could be built on to provide student accommodation. Hughes Hall, the University of Cambridge college, intends to buy land along the edge of Fenner’s to build “much-needed student accommodation, teaching and communal spaces”, but it has given assurances that the cricket pitch will be unaffected. However, residents of Glisson Road, who overlook the ground, warn that the university cricket ground has Protected Open Space status and that any building on the land could set a precedent th…