Wycombe District Sports Facility Strategy – Headline Needs Assessment Sport Professional Clubs Football (Wycombe Wanderers Football Club) Rugby (London Wasps Rugby Football Club) Community Clubs Athletics (Wycombe Phoenix Harriers) Identified need Responsibility Plan to develop a new 20,000 seat stadium with ancillary facilities, shared with London Wasps Need outdoor training facilities – football pitches and 3x3G covered pitches, and ancillary facilities including changing, fitness suite etc Need a 20,000 seat stadium with ancillary facilities, shared with WWFC Need outdoor training facilities – rugby pitches, 3G STP, and ancillary facilities including changing, fitness suite, running track (indoor and outdoor), access to 25m pool WWFC/LWasps Need 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 Badminton Need rather than courts with separated off that (Wycombe Badminton are up to Ball Hall standard Centre) Improved changing, classroom, meeting rooms, physio area, warm up area, social and spectating Need or have access to a fitness suite Basketball (Chiltern Need access to a two basketball (8 badminton court) Basketball Club) sports hall with spectator seating / scoring board (WSC too busy to accommodate) Bowls (Bassetsbury Extension to pavilion to cater for increasing club Manor Bowls Club) members and visiting players Bowls (Handy Cross rink indoor bowls hall (37.5x30m plus 5m WWFC/LWasps WDC/Clubs WBC CBC/Partner BMBC HCBC/WDC Cost By when Bowls Club) Cricket (Bledlow Cricket Club) Cricket (High Wycombe Cricket Club) Cricket (Hughenden Valley Cricket Club) Cricket (Ibstone Cricket Club) Cricket (Stokenchurch Cricket Club) Croquet (High Wycombe Croquet Club) Cycling (British Cycling Association) perimeter, spectator seating and lounge seating) Changing facilities and toilets, lockers, storage, office, meeting room Catering and bar facilities and shop New feature clock for pavilion, new toilets, second cricket pitch on ground next door 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 lanes Wycombe needs an indoor cricket centre with 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 Development of cricket net facilities and other sports facilities Would like to improve Clubhouse change rooms with showers Would like to add new practice nets BCC HWCC Shared facility/ECB HVCC ICC SCC HWCC/WDC 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 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 Football (Marlow Football Club) Football (Risborough Rangers) Football (Widmer End Junior Football Club) Gymnastics (Abbey Gym Club) Hockey (High Wycombe Hockey Club) Hockey (Marlow Hockey Club) Judo - Wycombe Judo Centre Netball (Netball Centre) start gates No response received from HW Cycling Club Option to reopen the Buckmaster BMX track will be fully explored Need access to pitches and number in Marlow is reducing Have scheme that will provide a 3G STP, pitches, larger clubhouse and changing rooms with floodlighting and spectator seating in Little Marlow Gravel Pits Would like additional pitches Need full size and mini pitches co-located with clubhouse Identified Molins Sports Ground as a possible site to share Clubhouse needs replacing Improved car access MFC/WDC RRFC PRTC/WDC WEJFC Dedicated gymnastics hall (22m by 45m with 6m clearance) Want to share a sand based STP Want a pavilion adjacent with clubhouse facilities AGC? Need sand based STP – will share Marlow Sports Club STP when developed Centre needs lift to entrance and sliding doors to become DDA compliant Want to increase lease back to 50 years Would like more netball courts, all floodlit with anti vandal fencing New access road needed and more car parking MHC/MSC Shared facility with BNU and WDC WJC WDC NC WDC/BCC Outdoor activities (Longridge Outdoor Activity Centre) Rowing (Marlow Rowing Club) Rugby (High Wycombe Rugby Football Club) Rugby (Marlow Rugby Football Club) Need additional changing provision with lockers and shower cubicles and storage – caged area for storing posts Would like hard surfacing around courts Need to secure site – achieved Need to improve facilities for girls – accommodation, changing and toilets Plan to add a new climbing wall 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 Need 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 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 Squash (Bucks Two extra courts Squash Club, Booker) Glazed spectating area for competitions Swimming Continued provision of a 50metre pool, spec as a (Wycombe and competition pool at international level District Swimming Widening to lanes Club) Tennis (Cressex Need outdoor clay courts adjacent to Centre Indoor Tennis Centre) LOAC MRC WDC HWRUFC MRUFC/WDC BSC WDSC/WDC CITC £20k Tennis (Marlow Tennis Academy) Multi Sports Organisations Downley Sports Club Hambleden Sports Association Hazlemere Parish Council Marlow Sports Club Nexus (Community) RAF High Wycombe Wooburn Parish Council Wycombe and Marlow Area Sports Council Wycombe District Council Flood lights needed on existing CGLC courts New court development would enable club to meet demand MTA/WDC Upgrade the Sports Pavilion Replace the Sports Club Pavilion DSC HAS Rebuilding of Sports Pavilion HPC Need to secure ground from Whitbread Plan to acquire backfield and develop sand based STP Would like to develop a cultural trust for Bucks Co-location of health facilities with sport Refurbishing STP and would like community use Have a plan for a new sports hall, changing facilities and gym – awaiting site decision Would like new pavilion, new changing facilities at Bourne End recreation ground, new goal posts, new MUGA and BMX / Skatepark units None received to date MSC WDC RAFHW WPC Plans in progress to replace Wycombe Sports Centre WDC 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 Educational establishments Amersham and Wycombe College Wycombe Sports Centre, when replaced (Results of Outdoor Sports Survey to be added) 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) Bucks New University Campus redevelopment provides new sports hall Outdoors facilities – football pitches, rugby pitches with American football capabilities, multi purpose grass area, water based STP, 3G STP, all weather tennis courts (with netball markings), cricket pitch with squares, 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) Carrington Junior Would like STP Cressex School School redevelopment in progress – new court hall and MUGAs (3 netball and basketball) Outdoors facilities remain Pavilion needs ??? Danesfield School Can add sports hall by altering use of existing Medmenham classrooms and building new ones – to be used for dance, floor work gymnastics, and drama All weather pitch would allow hockey, football etc Crown House School Development of water space / pool facilities (independent) Highcrest Community Would like STP with low floodlights School Highworth Combined Would like new sports hall with more car parking AWC – 2011 Shared facility with WDC and BNU BNU BNU/WDC dependent on dual use agreement 2009 2009 (temporary facilities if necessary) BCC/Building Schools for the Future BCC/DS 2010 CHS BCC/HS BCC/HCS John Hampden Princes Risborough School Royal Grammar School St Bernard’s Catholic School St Paul’s Sir William Borlase School Sports Partnership Sir William Ramsay School Wycombe High School Wye Valley School Sports Partnership Would like cricket square Powerleague STP 5-aside development 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 Plan to replace changing blocks and fitness suite – plans for new block with fitness suite and changing facilities and café along with outdoors and wet side changing 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 Upgrade / repair swimming pool Would like additional sports hall Astroturf surface to part of school ground 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 Horizons Sports Club are in discussion with the School about provision of a sunken trampoline hall Upgrade tennis / netball courts with flood lights STP Dance studio Want own court hall so not sharing Bourne End Junior Sports Club with changing Want a 3G full size STP JHS BCC/PRS RGS BCC/SBCS BCC/SPS SWB WHS BCC/WVS £1.4m