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Sports village TAKING SHAPE


In May 2005 work began on creating an 11 hectare sports village on an old site consisting of several muddy football pitches and an old pavilion


Report by PETER JONES


In May 2005, work began to create an 11 hectare sports village at Shrewsbury in Shropshire. The project entailed the redevelopment of a local authority maintained sports facility, consisting of several muddy football pitches and a small pavilion building supplying changing facilities. These old pitches were constantly struggling to be in good enough condition to be playable due to poor drainage. The decision made by Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council was to reconstruct better standard pitches, while at the same time building an


impressive new indoor sports centre on the site. The first job was the spraying of the existing 11 soccer pitches with a total herbicide.


The new design


incorporated a competition floodlit premier pitch with an automatic irrigation system, 8 senior pitches, 4 junior pitches, 4 mini pitches, a senior floodlit 3rd generation synthetic pitch, 5 floodlit Multi Use Games Area


(MUGA) pitches, a skate park and a 1km long tarmac cycle track circuit with lighting. The


main


building contractor on the site was Bluestone plc who employed Kestrel Golf and Sports for the specialist sports surface pitch construction. The project management for the construction of these pitches was to be overseen by Peter Jones Associates Ltd (PJA), who maintained a permanent site presence throughout the job.


On June 20th, with the


existing pitches looking brown from the glyphosate weedkiller, earthworks began. The site was split into two, with one half having a full cut and fill earthworks programme, whilst the other half was reconstructed by a readjustment of levels to each individual pitch, to stay


within the


budget parameters. With the adjoining land thought to be the home to greater crested newts, there were strict rules applied to workings on the site within a 100 metres radius of their habitat. After checks were made and barriers installed, the entire area of the site was rotovated using a Maschio Recovator to break up the surface and integrate the dead turf.


The topsoil was then stripped from the cut and fill areas using a Komatsu D6 and pushed into temporary bunds. The soil was then transported to a central stockpile using a Komatsu 210 excavator and two Volvo 20 ton dump trucks. The same four machines


were then used to carry out the cut and fill operation needed to create the required design plateaus, and the fill


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