Floodlights have been added this year to Sophia Gardens

A protest will be held at the club on Saturday by opponents of the proposals, which include a temporary home for the Cardiff Devils ice hockey team.

Chairman Paul Russell said the club would have to look at plans to move.

Cardiff planners have agreed with objections by historic monuments body Cadw, but the council said a solution could be found.

We have to be able to develop our ground if we are to survive as a county cricket club and as an international venue Paul Russell, Glamorgan chairman

The club played its first fixture in Cardiff at the nearby Arms Park in 1889, and has been at Sophia Gardens since 1967, although it also uses other grounds around Wales.

Glamorgan wants to raise Sophia Gardens' capacity to 17,000, but its plans, including an ice rink in the car park, have been recommended for refusal, ahead of a council planning committee next week.

The rink would be a temporary base for the Cardiff Devils because their current city centre home will be demolished to make way for a �500m shopping complex.

In the long term, the Devils plan to move to a new rink in a new sports village in Cardiff Bay.

The Cardiff Devils' base is to be demolished for a shopping complex

Devils supporters have threatened to "sleep in" at the rink to halt the shopping scheme, known as St David's 2. They object to the alternative temporary rink, at another site in Cardiff Bay, which the council has proposed.

'Difficult to ignore'

A campaign group, Save Our Parklands campaign, which opposes the Sophia Gardens development, demonstrated at the site on Saturday after calling on ice hockey fans to join in.

But Mr Russell said: "We have to be able to develop our ground if we are to survive as a county cricket club and as an international venue, and under the current approach to Glamorgan being adopted by the council that doesn't seem possible."

It's been difficult the last couple of years to find a solution and I'm disappointed it's taking so long Shannon Hope, Cardiff Devils

Mr Russell told BBC Radio Wales that the club would be prepared to abandon its 10-year plan for Sophia Gardens because it "has no sympathy and could not be implemented."

He denied that Glamorgan were "trying to frighten people". But while the club currently had no plans to leave Cardiff he said "we would need to look at plans to move elsewhere."

He has said the club had received a number of approaches from Swansea council and cricket club in particular, as well as Rhondda Cynon Taf.

Council leader Rodney Berman said he was very keen to talk to the club to find a way forward, adding: "I would imagine that we could overcome some of the difficulties."

Mr Berman told Good Morning Wales it was very difficult to ignore an objection from a body such as Cadw. But the council plan for a temporary rink in the sports village was a practical alternative, and was confident it could be ready for September.

Shannon Hope, the Devils' director of hockey, said: "It's been difficult the last couple of years to find a solution and I'm disappointed it's taking so long."

He said the team needed to be out of the Wales National Ice Rink by April, and the nearest alternative they could use would be in Swindon, more than 80 miles away.