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New clubhouse, new nets and refurbished wickets for West Midlands club
SIR Ian Botham was the guest of honour at the official opening of the new clubhouse at Fordhouses Cricket Club. The Wolverhampton based club have had a turbulent recent history after losing their long-standing ground at Taunton Road to developers, before finally taking over the old Dowty Boulton Paul Sports and Social Club ground in 2006.
That move instigated an intense round of planning meetings, funding applications and tendering that have culminated in the successful redevelopment of the site.
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Howard Clay, himself a cricket groundsman for his local club but, more importantly, an expert in managing capital projects, was seconded to the committee to add his experience. Here, he explains how the project came to fruition.
“In July 2011, the Chairman of Fordhouses Cricket Club, Kevin Threlfall, invited me to join the development committee that was trying to deliver a major project of refurbishing the club facilities as well as improving the external playing areas.
Kevin knew that I had many years experience in the cricket world, including being
groundsman at my own club, as well as managing many similar capital projects, and he felt that I could add a level of experience they did not have on the committee.
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The background to the project was that the club had previously been given notice by developers to leave their then existing ground and find a new home. A suitable one was found and a Sports Lottery bid was made which did ‘tick all the boxes’ for sport, community and education
but was, sadly, unsuccessful.
The club then agreed a lease with Wolverhampton City Council to take over what is now their current site at Wobaston Road. The site was previously an industrial sports ground, and it was from this base that senior club officials eventually secured Section 106 monies arising from the development work taking place at their old ground. £343,000 was the budget and was given for the creation of new and/or enhanced outdoor cricket sports pitches, including upgrading all of the dressing rooms. The club has also used other funding to modernise the social club part of the premises.
My brief was as follows:
- improve the playing surface of the 1st team square
- upgrade the 3rd team square
- through a tender process, install new non-turf pitches to each square
- extend the existing net facility and improve the security
- recommend and purchase suitable grounds maintenance machinery and equipment
- install an electronic scoreboard
1st Team Square
The square was a typical old works type that had been well looked after over the years by a full-time groundsman, but had gradually deteriorated as budgets for social outlets for employees disappeared off company balance sheets. The
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