Billingham Rugby Club approached Club Design to help formulate a club development plan that would enable the club to attract significant grant funding towards the construction of new facilities. The club was suffering from a three site existence, changing at a local football club, walking to hired rugby pitches and then socialising at a local working men’s club. The grant that was achieved for the new facilities, was (at the time) the largest award to a members club in the Cleveland region.
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Congleton Cricket Club is a busy club comprising of bowls, cricket and social members. Club Design was engaged to enter into brewery negotiations on the behalf of the club and then to use those funds to design and construct a new function room, tea-room and changing rooms.
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Elworth Cricket Club is the premier club in the Sandbach area of Cheshire. Club Design was approached to advise on an application to refurbish, extend and upgrade the pavilion and also to provide a new net practice area. The strength of the club’s commitment to junior cricket development was a key attribute in the successful application for grant funding.
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Rochdale Racquets Club was once located behind Highfield Hospital and suffered from ongoing significant vandalism problems. In the year leading up to the club’s relocation, local thugs broke into the clubhouse and the damage was so severe that the clubhouse had to be closed and boarded up. Club Design was engaged to sell the site to a housing developer and to identify a new site to house tennis courts and changing facilities. Rochdale Racquets Club is now sited at Bamford Fieldhouse Cricket Club and boasts some of the best courts in the town.
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When Sandford Cricket Club approached Club Design to help in its quest for a new clubhouse, the first meeting took place in a sectional ex-army barrack that once stood on the site as a cricket pavilion. With good support from the club committee, the application for funding to Sport England quickly took shape and following notification that funding was available, the building design was tendered and let.
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Tyldesley RUFC approached Club Design to initially look at advising on grant funding bids to improve existing facilities. However, the club’s old site accommodated only two pitches and the fabric of the clubhouse was beyond repair. Relocation was then considered as a more favourable option. After selling the site to a developer, Club Design achieved detailed consent on a greenbelt site and managed the construction of all the new facilities. The club is a regular venue for county and other representative fixtures.
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Unsworth C.C. originally approached Club Design to look at grant funding on the old site. During those discussions, the club indicated that relocation would be a more favourable option. Club Design designed the new facility, was instrumental in the sale of the site to a national house builder, acted for the club at public inquiry and managed the construction of the new facilities to completion. The new facility is one of the most attractive in the northwest and the club has hosted county 2nd XI cricket.
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The relocation of Skelmersdale Cricket Club gave a new lease of life to cricket in the area. The new facilities include a premier league sized ground, good quality net facilities, an attractive new clubhouse and ample car parking. Club Design was involved in all aspects of the relocation and worked hand in glove with the club’s committee.
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Menai Bridge was one of the first locations for the Pavilions Project under the ECB’s Channel 4 funding of grass roots cricket. Club Design had already built pavilions for the ECB at Nottingham and Wolverhampton. This club boasts one of the best views in cricket – with a view across the Menai Straits to the Snowdonia National Park. The little pavilion is very pleasing to the eye and is a credit to the club and to its funders.
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The ECB identified Wightwick as a beneficiary under its Pavilions Project. Club Design was appointed to deal with the project and the scheme progressed quickly to completion. The new clubhouse was part funded by the club, which allowed a small lounge bar to be incorporated in addition to the changing and showering facilities that the ECB wanted to see erected.
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Hopwood Hall College has some of the most innovative and committed staff that we have come across. The bid for funding was put together by the College itself without any need for consultants input and was acknowledged to be one of the best seen. The new facilities will enable the college and a local junior football club (Middleton Colts) to offer the widest opportunity to nurture talent. These new football facilities are of a high quality and are amongst the best in the area.
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Funded through sale of its old site at Cricketers Way to Sainsbury’s Supermarket, the relocation to new facilities at the St Georges Oval on Cappadocia Way has transformed Westhoughton Cricket Club. With a spectacular new clubhouse, new cricket ground, car park and practice facilities, this is certainly now one of the premier cricket clubs in the northwest of England.
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Before Longton RUFC relocated to its fantastic new home at Trentham Fields close to Stoke City FC, it had a two site existence, with one site at Roughcote Lane housing a single pitch and clubhouse and car park, with a satellite site on Leek Rd half a mile away housing a further two pitches. Planning consent was achieved to build houses on the clubhouse site and a deal was done to “donate” the Leek Rd site to Longton Harriers FC. The two clubs benefited from high quality new facilities.
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Menai Bridge was one of the first locations for the Pavilions Project under the ECB’s Channel 4 funding of grass roots cricket. Club Design had already built pavilions for the ECB at Nottingham and Wolverhampton. This club boasts one of the best views in cricket – with a view across the Menai Straits to the Snowdonia National Park. The little pavilion is very pleasing to the eye and is a credit to the club and to its funders.
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The RFU asked Club Design to become involved in this project. GFSA is a charitable organisation set up with the amalgamation of 2 junior football clubs and a rugby club. GFSA took over the running of a multi-pitch site following the closure of a high school under the Building Schools for The Future program. Once the school buildings had been demolished, the local authority sold that part of the site to Persimmon Homes, leasing the grass pitches to GFSA. This meant that they had a site but no support facilities. Club Design and club members approached Derbyshire County Council with an idea to extend the residential development area by including some old tennis courts for Persimmon to build houses on, thereby providing additional funds that would pump prime grant applications. This was agreed and a deal was struck with Persimmon. The moneys secured were then bolstered by grant funding, providing enough money for a new 8 changing room clubhouse, complete with 2 social rooms, office and commercial kitchen. Also provided as part of the scheme was improved drainage to grass pitches, a new car park and a full sized 3G artificial grass pitch.
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Club Design was invited to examine the feasibility of producing a joint cricket / football changing pavilion to serve the two sports at this mixed use site. After consultation with the ECB and the FA it became apparent that a joint funded scheme was possible and so plans were drawn and planning applications made. Both governing bodies were true to their word and the clubhouse was constructed.
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Club Design was asked by the RFU to help to deliver a new clubhouse on a site owned by East Lindsey District Council. Club Design worked well with East Lindsey and with other consultants to design and draw up a project that was funded through Football Foundation, RFU CCDP and via funds from East Lindsey. The new facility is essentially a new 8 changing room clubhouse, with extended and completely refurbished social facilities.
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Club Design won a design competition to land this particular project. Grappenhall Tennis Club achieved detailed planning consent to build apartments on its old site and then struck a deal with a junior football club to move to their site, to create a new multi-sport club. Club Design’s stunning new clubhouse was constructed along with new tennis courts, football pitches and landscaping.
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Billingham Rugby Football Club
Congleton Cricket Club
Elworth Cricket Club
Rochdale Racquets Club
Sandford Cricket Club
Tyldesley Rugby Union Club
Unsworth Cricket and Tennis Club
Skelmersdale Cricket Club
Menai Bridge Cricket Club
Wightwick & Finchfield Cricket Club
Hopwood Hall College, Manchester
Westhoughton Cricket Club, Bolton
Longton RUFC & Longton Harriers FC
Oxford Downs Cricket Club
Gosforth Fields Sports Association, Sheffield
Bartestree & Lugwardine Playing Fields Association, Hereford
Skegness RUFC & East Coast Juniors FC
Grappenhall Sports Club, Warrington