We have been busy recently working with developers and their agents to define the sporting content of their schemes. Elegant Homes PPM: We produced a needs assessment for a football pitch being provided as part of a proposed housing development on a former playing field site in South Oxfordshire. The commission involved assessing the…
At the turn of the year we worked with property consultants Savills and Exning FC in West Suffolk to explore relocation of the club’s ground from Lacey’s Lane in Exning. The club currently plays on a site owned by the Exning Estate but have outgrown the site and have found that their youth development is…
It’s good to be able to report a commission on one of our home patches. We and AD Architects have been appointed to take a strategic look at the provision of 3G football pitches in the neighbouring council area of Basildon and Rochford. We are working with both local authorities, Active Essex, Essex FA and…
In recent years we’ve worked extensively in north Surrey on playing pitch and sports facilities strategies. Our clients have included Epsom & Ewell, Spelthorne, Runneymede and Elmbridge councils. We are pleased to be able to add Mole Valley District Council to this list. The council area runs from Leatherhead in the north, down past Dorking…
We are pleased to say that we have just been appointed by Rushmoor Borough Council to work with them to develop a new cycling centre in Aldershot. Proposals for the new centre include a closed road circuit, BMX pump track, mountain bike skills course and learn to ride area. The total cost is estimated at…
My cricket club Hutton CC held our annual, end of season Six a Side tournament last weeked. As you will see it’s a fun event but one which has a serious purpose. It is a fundraiser for the Orchid charity which works to raise awarenesss of men’s cancer particularly testicular and prostate cancer. With the…
We are currently in the middle stages of two parallel pieces of work for the borough of Epsom and Ewell in north west Surrey. The first is a playing pitch strategy, the second a built sports facilities assessment and strategy. Both are being carried out using Sport England guidance and in close cooperation with the…
We have just, June 2020, completed a feasibility study for a new leisure facility in Armthorpe in south Yorkshire. We were working with Armthorpe Parish Council on the best way to improve leisure opportunities in the former mining community. One of the village’s claims to fame is as the home of the Markham Main Colliery…
South Holland District Council in Lincolnshire commissioned us last year to produce two complementary strategies. These are a playing pitch strategy covering the major pitch sports of cricket, hockey, football and the two rugby codes and a built facilities strategy covering all other facilities including sports halls, swimming pools, tennis courts and fitness centres. We…
Built in 1984, the Waterfront Leisure Centre in Woolwich is one of the largest in London. It has two sports halls, four different water areas including a leisure pool with flume, squash courts and a large gym. However, it’s now showing its age. The Royal Borough of Greenwich is proposing to replace the Waterfront with…