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time facilities manager who will liaise with the grounds contractor on what work they are to undertake.” Responsible for the first year’s grounds maintenance is principal contractor CLS, who clinched the project after a competitive tendering process.


Just over two miles south of Harrogate town centre, what is now named Pannal Community Park saw the redevelopment of a now fallow arable field to include natural pitches catering largely for junior age groups. With a heavy natural soil profile, a 100mm to 200mm clay loam topsoil layer overlies an orange/grey clay subsoil to depth of at least


850mm to 900mm, then medium and high strength sandy, gravelly clay down to at least 2.75m, according to national surveys. The STRI, in its tendering document for the project, notes that the soil locally is “slowly permeable and, without artificial drainage, is seasonally waterlogged for long periods of the winter”.


From this sloping site has arisen a series of three terraces, each the platform for sportsturf. CLS moved 15,500m3


of earth to


fashion the foundation for a cricket square and outfield, two full-size football pitches, U11/U12 areas and a small training zone at the top level, two seven-a-side pitches on the


mid terrace and a further two 5-a-side pitches on the lower end near the site earmarked for the car park and clubhouse.


A large clay-lined attenuation pond created on the middle plateau is intended to drain the clubhouse, car park and other areas. “Control of waterflow into the pond and out of it into Crimple Beck, which meanders along the north-western boundary, is via concrete conduits and inlets,” explains CLS operations director Brian Dunn.


Plant brought in to cut and fill the site included a Komatsu PX61i GPS bulldozer CLS bought specifically for the project, and Hydrema dump trucks, fitted with low ground


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