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20.09.2023 - 17:34 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A grass pitch at Oldham’s Boundary Park stadium is to be replaced with a 3G multi-sports surface which will allow more youth and rugby teams to train.
The grass pitch known as ‘Little Wembley’ at Oldham Athletic club, next to the main stadium, accessed off Hilbre Avenue, is used for football and rugby training. Under the plans lodged by The Latics, the pitch would be upgraded into a full size football and rugby league compliant 3G pitch.
And a new single storey building would also be constructed housing changing rooms, a classroom-office area, toilets and café and refreshment area. The Oldham Athletic Football Club first team would not be a regular user of the Little Wembley pitch.
But it would provided a training and playing area for the nine mini, junior and youth girl’s teams of Oldham Athletic Girls and Women, the 12 mini, junior and youth teams run by partner community club – Santos FC, as well as local schools, Oldham College and students on the Latics club development programme.
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The 3G surface will enable more ‘intense use’ of the pitch, and ‘outmoded’ floodlights will be replaced with ‘modern, more sensitively designed’ sports lighting, and a ball-catch fence. One of the existing recent floodlights has recently ‘fallen over’, the supporting documents say.
A planning statement submitted with the application states: “The driver for the proposal is to provide a better quality, more durable facility to serve the needs of the range of community girls, boys, junior and youth teams run by and associated with OAFC and the Oldham Athletic Community Trust (OACT), its community
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