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Wycombe District Sports Facility Strategy – Headline Needs AssessmentProfessional Clubs Football Wycombe Wanderers Football Club  Plan to develop a new 20,000 seat stadium with ancilla

Wycombe District Sports Facility Strategy – Headline Needs Assessment

Professional Clubs

Football (Wycombe

Wanderers Football

Club)

 Plan to develop a new 20,000 seat stadium with ancillary facilities, shared with London Wasps

 Need outdoor training facilities – 6 football pitches and 3x3G covered pitches, and ancillary facilities including changing, fitness suite etc

WWFC/LWasps

Rugby (London

Wasps Rugby

Football Club)

 Need a 20,000 seat stadium with ancillary facilities, shared with WWFC

 Need outdoor training facilities – 6 rugby pitches, 1 3G STP, and ancillary facilities including changing, fitness suite, running track (indoor and outdoor), access to 25m pool

WWFC/LWasps

Community Clubs

Athletics (Wycombe

Phoenix Harriers)  Need 8 lane floodlit track with seating for spectators

and building on home straight Needs to be secure

 Need clubhouse with changing, toilets and storage

 Would like access to a shared health and fitness suite

WDC/Clubs

Badminton

(Wycombe Badminton

Centre)

 Need 8 rather than 6 courts with 2 separated off that are up to Ball Hall standard

 Improved changing, classroom, meeting rooms, physio area, warm up area, social and spectating

 Need or have access to a fitness suite

WBC

Basketball (Chiltern

Basketball Club)  Need access to a two basketball (8 badminton court)

sports hall with spectator seating / scoring board

(WSC too busy to accommodate)

CBC/Partner

Bowls (Bassetsbury

Manor Bowls Club)  Extension to pavilion to cater for increasing club

members and visiting players

BMBC

Bowls (Handy Cross  6 rink indoor bowls hall (37.5x30m plus 5m HCBC/WDC

Bowls Club) perimeter, spectator seating and lounge seating)

 Changing facilities and toilets, lockers, storage, office, meeting room

 Catering and bar facilities and shop

Cricket (Bledlow

Cricket Club)  New feature clock for pavilion, new toilets, second

cricket pitch on ground next door

BCC

Cricket (High

Wycombe Cricket

Club)

 Have own plans to develop groundsman accommodation, more strips, enclosure for scorer

 Would like good artificial practice wicket with 2-3 lanes, fully caged and 35 yards long

 Relocate grass practice wicket and add 2 lanes

 Wycombe needs an indoor cricket centre with 3 lanes and specialist lighting and flooring

 An upgrade of the cricket facilities at Green Dragon Lane, Flackwell Heath may be needed A

consultation response was received that the practice wickets in the nets need new all-weather lanes to be laid and new framework to support the safety nets

HWCC

Shared facility/ECB

Cricket (Hughenden

Valley Cricket Club)  Development of cricket net facilities and other sports

facilities

HVCC

Cricket (Ibstone

Cricket Club)  Would like to improve Clubhouse change rooms with

showers

ICC

Cricket

(Stokenchurch

Cricket Club)

 Would like to add 2 new practice nets SCC

Croquet (High

Wycombe Croquet

Club)

 2 full size courts (37 yards by 60 yards), flat and preferably grass, with a small secure storage space for equipment and ideally car parking and shelter

HWCC/WDC

Cycling (British

Cycling Association)  Local club aspires to a closed road circuit Needs to

be at least 500m long but would be better if 1km long Is a meandering, tarmaced road 6m wide

 BMX – demand exists locally Costs about £20k and can be open access Racing course costs £100k with

HWCC/WDC

start gates

 No response received from HW Cycling Club

 Option to reopen the Buckmaster BMX track will be fully explored

Football (Marlow

Football Club)  Need access to 8 pitches and number in Marlow is

reducing

 Have scheme that will provide a 3G STP, 2 pitches, larger clubhouse and changing rooms with

floodlighting and spectator seating in Little Marlow Gravel Pits

 Would like additional pitches

MFC/WDC

Football (Risborough

Rangers)  Need 2 full size and 4 mini pitches co-located with

clubhouse

 Identified Molins Sports Ground as a possible site to share

RRFC PRTC/WDC

Football (Widmer

End Junior Football

Club)

 Clubhouse needs replacing

 Improved car access

WEJFC

Gymnastics (Abbey

Gym Club)  Dedicated gymnastics hall (22m by 45m with 6m

clearance)

AGC?

Hockey (High

Wycombe Hockey

Club)

 Want to share a sand based STP

 Want a pavilion adjacent with clubhouse facilities

Shared facility with BNU and WDC

Hockey (Marlow

Hockey Club)  Need sand based STP – will share Marlow Sports

Club STP when developed

MHC/MSC

Judo - Wycombe

Judo Centre  Centre needs lift to entrance and sliding doors to

become DDA compliant

 Want to increase lease back to 50 years

WJC WDC

Netball (Netball

Centre)  Would like 2 more netball courts, all floodlit with anti

vandal fencing

 New access road needed and more car parking

NC WDC/BCC

 Need additional changing provision with lockers and shower cubicles and storage – caged area for storing posts

 Would like hard surfacing around courts

Outdoor activities

(Longridge Outdoor

Activity Centre)

 Need to secure site – achieved

 Need to improve facilities for girls – accommodation, changing and toilets

 Plan to add a new climbing wall

LOAC

Rowing (Marlow

Rowing Club)  Investigating an alternative/additional site due to

pending lease expiry

 need the training facility of the longer 5k distance available on the downstream Cookham reach Could

be a satellite facility

MRC

Rugby (High

Wycombe Rugby

Football Club)

 Need 1 extra full size pitches on site (can only achieve by re-providing a football pitch elsewhere)

 Changing room showers and boilers - replacement

 Ladies toilets refurbishment

WDC

Rugby (Marlow

Rugby Football Club)  1 further full size rugby pitch needed to cater for

growing mini section

 Clubhouse improvements – conservatory style extension, kitchen refit and new offices

 Changing improvements – upgrade all changing rooms, specific provision for females and referee changing

MRUFC/WDC

Squash (Bucks

Squash Club, Booker)  Two extra courts

 Glazed spectating area for competitions

BSC

Swimming

(Wycombe and

District Swimming

Club)

 Continued provision of a 50metre pool, spec as a competition pool at international level

 Widening to 8 lanes

WDSC/WDC

Tennis (Cressex

Indoor Tennis Centre)  Need 6 outdoor clay courts adjacent to Centre CITC

Tennis (Marlow

Tennis Academy)  Flood lights needed on existing CGLC courts

 New 6 court development would enable club to meet demand

MTA/WDC

Multi Sports

Organisations

Downley Sports Club  Upgrade the Sports Pavilion DSC Hambleden Sports

Association  Replace the Sports Club Pavilion HAS Hazlemere Parish

Council  Rebuilding of Sports Pavilion HPC Marlow Sports Club  Need to secure ground from Whitbread

 Plan to acquire backfield and develop sand based STP

MSC

Nexus (Community)  Would like to develop a cultural trust for Bucks

 Co-location of health facilities with sport

WDC

RAF High Wycombe  Refurbishing STP and would like community use

 Have a plan for a new sports hall, changing facilities and gym – awaiting site decision

RAFHW

Wooburn Parish

Council  Would like new pavilion, new changing facilities at

Bourne End recreation ground, new goal posts, new MUGA and BMX / Skatepark units

WPC

Wycombe and

Marlow Area Sports

Council

None received to date

Wycombe District

Council  Plans in progress to replace Wycombe Sports Centre

to include swimming pool, sports hall, fitness suite, squash courts, dance studios and ancillary facilities (specification to be confirmed)

 Need to plan replacement of Court Garden Leisure Centre swimming pool

 Would like to extend fitness suite at Risborough Springs and add sports hall

 Indoor bowls could be established separately from

WDC

Wycombe Sports Centre, when replaced

 (Results of Outdoor Sports Survey to be added)

Educational

establishments

Amersham and

Wycombe College  Campus re-development – will re-provide dance

studio, multi gym and small sports hall

 Require access to indoor multi-use facilities (prior to re-development) and outdoor multi-use grass facilities (prior to and beyond re-development)

AWC – Shared facility with WDC and BNU

2011

Bucks New University  Campus redevelopment provides new sports hall

Outdoors facilities – 3 football pitches, 2 rugby pitches with American football capabilities, multi purpose grass area, water based STP, 3G STP, 4 all weather tennis courts (with netball markings), cricket pitch with 3 squares, 2 cricket nets, club house with learning centre, licence & catering facilities, changing facilities, medical facilities / physiotherapy room for hockey and access to netball courts (see OS spreadsheet for added detail) (share access to Kingsmead rugby pitches)

BNU BNU/WDC dependent on dual use agreement

2009

2009 (temporary facilities if necessary)

Carrington Junior  Would like STP

Cressex School  School redevelopment in progress – new 4 court hall

and 4 MUGAs (3 netball and 1 basketball) Outdoors facilities remain Pavilion needs ???

BCC/Building Schools for the Future

2010

Danesfield School

Medmenham  Can add sports hall by altering use of existing

classrooms and building new ones – to be used for dance, floor work gymnastics, and drama

 All weather pitch would allow hockey, football etc

BCC/DS

Crown House School

(independent)  Development of water space / pool facilities CHS

Highcrest Community

School  Would like STP with low floodlights BCC/HS

Highworth Combined  Would like new sports hall with more car parking BCC/HCS

John Hampden  Would like cricket square

 Powerleague STP 5-aside development

JHS

Princes Risborough

School  4 court sports hall much needed with changing,

stores and PE office

 Would like access to a good seized fitness suite – can be at Risborough Springs

BCC/PRS

Royal Grammar

School  Plan to replace 2 changing blocks and fitness suite –

plans for new block with fitness suite and changing facilities and café along with outdoors and wet side changing

St Bernard’s Catholic

School  Multi gym needs new equipment, cricket nets and

new cricket strips, redgras needs resurfacing, the long jump pit needs to be moved and updated

 Need a new sports hall due to the decrepit state of our current gym School would have to raise 10% of the cost

BCC/SBCS

St Paul’s  Upgrade / repair swimming pool

 Would like additional sports hall

 Astroturf surface to part of school ground

BCC/SPS

Sir William Borlase

School Sports

Partnership

 Need a four court sports hall on site

 Would like to floodlight STP but anticipate objections

 Would use STP at Marlow Sports Club when developed

SWB

Sir William Ramsay

School  Horizons Sports Club are in discussion with the

School about provision of a sunken trampoline hall Wycombe High

School  Upgrade tennis / netball courts with flood lights

 STP

 Dance studio

WHS

Wye Valley School

Sports Partnership  Want own 4 court hall so not sharing Bourne End

Junior Sports Club with changing

 Want a 3G full size STP

BCC/WVS