FLOODLIGHTS at a tennis club in a Worcestershire village are still not working - one year on from when they were installed.

Floodlights overlooking two outdoor hard courts at Kempsey Lawn Tennis Club are still without power meaning players cannot play as late as they want to. And with the winter months approaching, the club is keen to get the matter resolved.

Committee member Ed Bradford said the ongoing situation is frustrating.

"The land is leased from the parish council and we have been trying to sort out with their solicitors and our solicitors the legalities of getting a power connection," he said.

"We haven't been able to use the floodlights for over a year now and it is getting up to the second winter when we would ideally want to use them.

"The connection has only got to come a matter of metres, it's not like putting a national grid across the land or anything."

He said a connection needs to be made from an electric pole on Napleton Lane to a green box on the side of the road, and recently wrote to Kempsey Parish Council about the matter.

"It's pretty frustrating from the club's point of view because we had the floodlights put in and the courts done as well and it's all part of a wider programme but it hasn't been able to realise its full potential," he said.

Mr Bradford said there seem to have been a breakdown in communication between the tennis club's and Kempsey Parish Council's solicitors.

"The solicitors don't seem to be talking to each other," he said. "We are a third party and it's nothing to do with us - it's all a bit confusing really."

A spokesman for E.ON (Central Networks) said the company was keen to get the work done but it was having some difficulties with Kempsey Parish Council.

However, at Kempsey Parish Council meeting chairman David Harrison said although the delay was unfortunate, it was not the council's fault.

He said all of the documents relating to the matter could be looked at by anyone from the club to show they have done everything in their power to get the matter resolved.

"It's all there and we have nothing to hide," he said. "I don't know what more we can do to hurry this up and I don't know what our solicitors can do."