We are delighted to announce that Wycombe District Council have appointed us to prepare a new playing pitch strategy for the district. The project will run from September through to the end of the year and will follow the new Sport England methodology for Cricket, Football, Hockey and Rugby. One of our key tasks will be…
We have just finished a highly enjoyable project for Shinfield Parish Council in Berkshire. Working with the Parish Council and Wokingham Borough Council we completed an open space, sport facilities and playing pitch needs analysis for an area known as the South of the M4 Strategic Development Location. The project involved: – Reviewing, in the…
We are delighted to announce more PLC funding success. Hutton Cricket Club in Essex are the happy recipients of the maximum grant of £50,000 from Sport England’s “Inspired Facilities” fund. This fund was set up to ensure a long lasting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This money will be used to upgrade the club’s…
Bristol City Council have just (February 2013) appointed us to advise them on the development of sports facilities in the city. Their commission is in two parts – a built facilities strategy and a playing pitch strategy both of which will feed into a wider Strategy for Sport across the City. We are delighted to…
Back in the 1980s Jim Lynch worked for Gillingham Council and lived in Rochester. Both have now been absorbed into the north Kent unitary authority of Medway Council. So it was good for Jim to go back to see some of his old haunts when we were appointed to conduct an outdoor sports study for…
South East Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Planning Committee We have just been appointed by a consortium comprising Boston Borough Council and South Holland District Council, to undertake a sports facilities and open space assessment for the area covered by the two local authorities. We will be conducting an extensive consultation programme to establish local needs, then…
Biddenham International School and Sports College We are assisting the college and its partner Queen’s Park Youth Cricket to develop a funding application to Sport England under its ‘Inspired Facilities’ programme and the England and Wales Cricket Board, for a new pavilion for use by the college and club. The College draws most of its students…
Land Securities: Land Securities is seeking to develop a viable mixed-use scheme involving the creation of new housing, employment opportunities, shops and open space at Harrow View, formerly the the Kodak site in Harrow, North West London. Because the development will involve the loss of playing pitches from Kodak’s former Sports and Social Club, we…
Tony’s been breaking new ground on a project with the Philharmonia Orchestra looking at the positive effects of music on people with Alzheimer’s disease. This looked at the ‘Expression through Music’ programme. The project involved a series of weekly sessions for a period of eight weeks for the carers of people living with dementia, facilitated…