Comparing the green and white “blight” to the district’s historic cricket pavilion, which is home to Scotland’s national team, Mr Hughes added: “You have [had] this lovely grandstand since 1892, which looks in place, and then you have this ugly monolith that dominates the skyline and jars the eye. “It’s hideous. How have they got away with this? It’s a nightmare.” “A horrible blot on the landscape,” Kenris MacLeod added in response to the Change.org petition, describing it as “terrible for human and wildlife alike”. “A beautiful area, and residents’ mental health, destroyed for monetary gain,” she said. “The excuse that there’s not enough places to play tennis? Give me a break!” Others also hit out at the “ugly, ill-fitting structure” and accused the design of being “very garish and not in keeping with [its] surroundings” as well as comparable to “an enormous zit”.