DAVID Lloyd has served up major changes to his plans for a new tennis centre in York to overcome local objections.

Next Generation Clubs, headed by the former Wimbledon star, is revising its planning application to City of York Council for a sports and leisure complex off Hull Road.

The changes come almost exactly a year after the Evening Press launched its Everyone for Tennis campaign in support of Lloyd, after his original proposals for a tennis centre at Monks Cross were turned down by planners.

The revised plans include:

Moving the whole complex 60 metres further south to take it away from Woodlands, a respite centre for multiple sclerosis sufferers.

Providing access into the site from the Windmill Lane junction with Hull Road and Tang Hall Lane. Restrictions on access into Windmill Lane will be retained but in a new position.

Funding the installation of a full traffic lights system at the junction, where motorists currently have great difficulty emerging from Tang Hall Lane into Hull Road.

The company has also offered to make a contribution towards the costs of traffic-calming proposals in Tang Hall Lane.

A spokesman said the changes had been made after the company had taken on board comments at a public meeting about the original proposals.

The College of Ripon and York St John, which owns the site and has jointly submitted the revised proposal to the council, said it wanted to ensure it had understood and responded appropriately to objections from local residents and neighbours.

It said it had consulted York council's planning, highway and leisure departments as the new plans were developed.

Plans were still progressing for the development of an Institute of Sport and Exercise Science to be run jointly by the college and Next Generation.

"The college has also been in discussions with the City of York Council and Sport England about managed community access to the sports facilities it will retain on the Hull Road site and elsewhere on its York campuses.

"As a result, it has delivered a sports and site management document to the two groups, establishing targets for student and community use of the facilities."

Full details of the revised scheme wwill be outlined at a public meeting at Archbishop Holgate School at 7pm on July 20.