project profile
changing facilities for men and women. Also a hybrid grass pitch, an elite 3G pitch and a FIFA 2 star 3G pitch. Both 3G pitches will be floodlit. The elite 3G pitch will have 1000-seat stadium, a ticketing facility and accommodation for food and beverage sales.
An important factor in developing the design
was to ensure that the architectural elements remain in keeping with its surrounding natural environment. The design approach joins up the existing countryside facility with the new development to both enhance and complement the wider open space provision that exists around Northwich. “The overall design creates an intelligent
contemporary response to the client’s need to provide a world-class football facility carefully placed within the contours of the surrounding landscape the scheme blends into the countryside creating pockets of spaces creating a landscape that naturally encourages activity,” says Ashton. The architectural style and materials used
complements the nature of the site while also bringing the development into the 21st century through more contemporary use of materials. The scheme must be both for local use and
able to appeal to perhaps an international clientele of visiting clubs and players for accommodation purposes, training and indeed rehabilitation. “Quality, international sports standards and
environmental accreditation are all important components of the ground-breaking and in many ways unique scheme,” says Ashton. “Vision 2020 is the first of its kind in the UK,
will become the exemplar for women’s and girls’ academy and elite football facilities across the UK and internationally.”
Cheshire FA’s vision for the Centre of
Excellence is to provide a world class football facility with an adjacent luxury conference centre and spa hotel. When completed, this development will be unique in women’s football in the UK, in terms of the range of amenities it contains within a single site, and in the commercial business model that supports it. The football centre provides a new HQ
building for Cheshire FA including an executive suite, coaching classrooms overlooking the 3G pitches, meeting rooms and a media centre, for all Cheshire FA TV operations as well as football press conferences from visiting teams. Extra amenities include a potential small retail outlet, nursery and sports injury/wellness centre. The pitch facilities include elite level
provision comprising a Desso pitch with undersoil heating, floodlighting and elite
A further three grassroots football pitches and three artificial pitches are provided together with multiple changing facilities. The hospitality development will include a
4 star hotel with a selection of private pavilions, a destination spa, swimming pool, gym, refined dining restaurant, conference suite with banqueting facility, meeting rooms, bar and lounge. The design of this leisure destination is a unique, ecologically sensitive and iconic resort that complements and enhances the surrounding landscape. In addition the resort will provide a desirable focal point facility for the local community to use.
design inspiration The masterplan design utilises the existing topography, working with it to enhance the facility, to exploit the views from the site itself but also provide improved views for the existing adjacent developments.
www.cheshirefa.com www.iondevelopments.co.uk www.space-place.com
Key facts • Investment circa £70m • Potential for the site to become home for a WSL1 Club
• 2 FIFA Standard Grassmaster Hybrid Pitches
• 1,000 seat stadium • Luxury hotel and spa • Two 3G pitches. • Six High Quality Grass pitches • 18 month build time from planning permission
• Youth Zone • World Class education facilities
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