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£10m cash injection for rural sports
New cricket pitches
Sport England funding to help efforts to drive participation as part of 2012 legacy
for Lewisham parks
Lewisham Council has approved By Pete Hayman
a £600,000 plan to construct new
cricket pitches at two parks – Efforts to increase the number
Hilly Fields and Mayow Park – of people playing sport in rural
within the south-east London communities have been given a
borough. Local social enterprise boost after Sport England
Envirowork Lewisham is leading revealed which schemes will
the ParkSport Lewisham project receive a share of £10m.
in partnership with the council More than 500 applications
and sports activity provider were received by the funding
Teachsport, with funding already agency as part of its Rural
secured from the Big Lottery Communities initiative, which is
Fund and the London Marathon the first of Sport England's
Charitable Trust. themed rounds aimed at The funding aims to increase physical activity in rural communities
delivering a sporting legacy
Trump submits detailed
from the 2012 Olympics. SportsHub@Treviglas in Villages, which aims to get
£1bn golf masterplan
Research conducted by the Newquay, Cornwall, which has 13,000 people across Devon
US billionaire tycoon Donald organisation revealed that received £1.675m to provide taking part in a range of
Trump has submitted a detailed two-thirds of English local new sports facilities for more various sports, while a similar
masterplan to Aberdeenshire authorities with the lowest than 15,000 people living in scheme in Derbyshire, compris-
Council for the development of participation rates are in rural rural communities. ing 12,000 people 60 villages
his new £1bn golf resort on the areas. One of the largest grants Nearly £600,000 has been and over the next three years,
Menie Estate, Scotland. Trump has been awarded to The awarded to Devon Active has netted £601,952.
International – Scotland was
granted outline planning
permission for the project by the
£2.39m Surrey Docks revamp scheme completed
Scottish Government in December
2008, despite the local authority By Tom Walker trust which operates the
rejecting the proposals in centre on behalf of the
December 2007. The detailed The Surrey Docks Watersports council, is also in the process
masterplan for the land at Menie Centre in Rotherhithe, South- of improving the centre's
has been drawn up by Gareth wark, has benefited from a disabled access standards so
Hoskins Architects and provides a £2.39m redevelopment. it will gain Inclusive Fitness
framework for the overall Funded by Southwark Status (IFI accreditation).
development of the site. Designs Council, the centre now boasts Councillor Lewis Robinson,
for the championship golf course, a health and fitness club with executive member for culture,
developed by Dr Martin Hawtree, exercise and dance studios. libraries, leisure and sport said:
have also been submitted. The redevelopment has seen The centre on the river Thames "The subsidised prices at Surrey
the upper floor extended to Docks Watersports Centre make
Irish elite sport
house a spacious gym over- reorganised to provide three it one of the most affordable
funding announced
looking the water, and the studios and a new club room. and accessible places for
Ireland's high performance ground floor space has been Fusion Lifestyle, the leisure Londoners to go sailing."
athletes will receive a share of
€8.35m (£7.3m) after the Irish
Sport Council (ISC) unveiled
Cardiff venue set for new snowsports development?
"ambitious plans" for each sport
over the coming year. Nearly A new snowsports centre could be established at Cardiff's International Sports Village (ISV) after
€5.3m (£4.6m) will be invested the local authority backed plans to appoint a company to run the proposed facility.
in Performance Plans – devised Cardiff Council's executive committee approved recommendations urging the "procurement of a
by performance directors for each developer/operator to design, build, fund and operate" both a new permanent ice rink and the
sport providing specific elite planned snow facility. A report put before the committee said: "The council has had an expression of
campaigns to cover training, interest in regard to a snow facility at the ISV site, which is said to relate to a specialist operator. That
competition requirements, sports approach is still being examined and is subject to a proposed Memorandum of Understanding."
science and medical support.
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