Project Overview

The project sought to deliver a new sports facility for UWE to accommodate their teams as well as provide a new home for 'Rockleaze Rangers', a local football team, for matches and training purposes. Other community use was also agreed by the university to allow access for other local teams to play at the facility when required.

Our Role

The site lies in the Green Belt and accordingly careful consideration needed to be given to the principle of development and its impact on the openness of the area; we recommended that a bund be incorporated into the design to shield the floodlights and development from view, which would act as a green feature and a positive landscape approach. We obtained approval for the pitches in 2016, after which we sought a further permission for the changing facilities which were required to meet RFU/FA standards, which was also successful and approved in 2017.