YORKSHIRE members last night voted overwhelmingly in favour of the committee's proposals for the redevelopment of Headingley with financial assistance from Sport England and Leeds City Council.

A large majority of the 200 or so members who attended the club's extraordinary annual meeting at the indoor cricket school at Headingley supported the resolution and 92.7 per cent of the proxy vote was in favour - 2,861 for and 224 against.

Yorkshire treasurer Peter Townend said that the club's borrowing from the banks would generate 40 per cent of the cost of the £10m redevelopment.

The underwriting of that £4m would come from the England and Wales Cricket Board in an agreement on staging fees for Test matches and one-day internationals at Headingley and from Leeds Council.

Interest on the borrowing was expected to be around £300,000 a year for the first four or five years of the ten-year repayment period and after that it would reduce markedly.

Asked if Yorkshire were certain to get their grant of £2.9m from Sport England, chief executive Chris Hassell said that the body would be making a final decision on October 2 and Yorkshire were confident the grant would be confirmed.

But Adam Brown, a Yorkshire member from Knottingley, said he had spoken to Sport England auditors who had told him no decision on the funding had been made and no meeting had yet been set to discuss the application.

Hassell replied that Sport England had been "absolutely marvellous" so far as the application was concerned but he stressed that no commitment would be made until the decision over Sport England funding had been conveyed to the club.

Asked what evidence there was that the ECB would continue with staging fees throughout the ten year period of the repayment of Yorkshire's loan, Hassell said that the Board had guaranteed Test cricket at Headingley over the next 25 years.

President Robin Smith said that Yorkshire intended to buy into all the income streams at Headingley, as agreed under the terms of the new 999-year lease, but they were not yet on that road and it could be ten years before they began buying those rights and putting them under Yorkshire's control.

Bradford member Geoff Holmes asked if it would be possible to seek sponsorship for Yorkshire's overseas player Darren Lehmann, who had finished the season as the country's leading run-scorer, and club chairman Keith Moss said he had sent out the first letter seeking such a deal only that day.