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Work starts on THFC training facility
Elsenham Golf submits
Construction commences on Spurs' multi-million pound project in North London
revised application
Elsenham Golf and Leisure has By Pete Hayman
submitted a revised planning
application for a new sports Work has started on a new
complex near Stansted Airport. multi-million pound training
Uttlesford District Council centre in Enfield, North London,
rejected the initial application which will house Tottenham
for a multi-purpose sports centre Hotspur Football Club's (THFC)
in May as it failed to meet the first team, development and
environmental requirements of academy squads.
the local green belt. If the new The 67-acre (2.4-hectare)
application for a smaller facility Bulls Cross facility is set to
on the site of the company's feature a two-storey building
existing nine-hole golf club is with a basement, which has
approved, local residents will be been designed by London- The new centre will boast a similar ETFE roof to the Eden Project
able to access a new swimming based KSS Group to incorpo-
pool, a health and fitness suite, rate a 70m x 50m (230ft x centre also form part of the a groundsman's lodge..
a sports hall and squash courts, 164ft) indoor artificial pitch. new building, which will boast It is hoped that the facility
as well as a restaurant. A learning centre for THFC's a transparent ETFE roof similar will enable THFC to help
academy and educational to Cornwall's Eden Project. develop talent, as well as
New athletics track
space, a hydrotherapy/ The centre will also feature 11 secure major economic benefits
planned for Wycombe
swimming pool, medical outdoor pitches - one artificial for the local area in addition to
Wycombe District Council has facilities, a fitness centre, pitch and 10 natural grass the club's £2.3m investment in
unveiled plans to build a new changing rooms and a media pitches, a security building and community programmes.
community athletics track and
pavilion at the Sir William
Ramsey School in Hazelmere,
New research hails impact of state school cricket
Buckinghamshire. The existing
athletics track at Wycombe By Pete Hayman the sport was seen to be
Sports Centre is set to be helping to improve the
demolished to make way for a A report from the Institute of behaviour of young people
coachway and park and ride. The Youth Sport at Loughborough both on and off the field.
new track will offer eight-lane University has revealed that Cricket has helped to benefit
competition facilities, spectator cricket is helping to improve areas of social deprivation,
seating for 100 people, a the social wellbeing of pupils at while gender barriers for girls
pavilion and floodlights. The state schools across the UK. are also being removed.
plans are currently the subject of The study, which was 'Chance to shine', which aims
a public consultation and full undertaken in order to examine to deliver cricket and its
planning permission will be the impact of the Cricket Cricket boosts social wellbeing educational benefits to at least
applied for in the autumn. Foundation's 'Chance to shine' two million children by 2015,
initiative, concluded that improved social skills and reached 350,000 young people
St Mirren FC put
students benefited from sportsmanlike behaviour, while at 3,000 state schools across
up for sale
increased fitness levels, the research also claimed that Britain during 2009.
St Mirren Football Club is
seeking a new owner after
several directors formed a
Work starts on Aberystwyth scheme
consortium to sell a block of
shares giving any prospective Construction work has started on a £1.3m scheme to extend the Carwyn James Building at
buyer a 52 per cent stake in the Aberystwyth University, which houses the institution's sports and exercise studies department.
club. The group, which has put a Eight new teaching and research laboratories will be created as part of the scheme, in addition
total of 98,000 shares up for sale, to the ten existing facilities as part of the project, expected to be completed by summer 2010.
includes current chair Stewart A new two-lane, 400m performance-standard athletics track will also be installed around the
Gilmour, who intends to leave all-weather sports pitch in order to replace an existing single lane tarmac track, which is situated
the Scottish Premier League club adjacent to the Aberystwyth University's sports centre.
after 12 years at the helm.
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