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Job North Norfolk Community Sports Hub
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SBA Project Code Drawing Status Code Revision 1636 A project originator zone level type role number 1636-SBA -XX -XX -DR-A -802 North Norfolk Community Sports Hub
North Norfolk District Council is working towards delivering an important new sports resource for the district and beyond.
The Community Sports Hub would provide year round indoor tennis in Cromer, plus benefits for a number of outdoor courts around the district.
You can find out more detail in this leaflet and also view an artist’s impression of the facility and floor plans.
FAQs for the proposed North Norfolk Community Sports Hub
Q. What is the Community Sports Hub?
A. A new purpose-built sports facility in Cromer featuring three indoor tennis courts for use by the public, members of the Cromer Lawn Tennis and Squash Association and students of Cromer Academy. The facility would also include a 25 station gym with an area for free weights and fitness, changing rooms, toilets, a reception area, a social area and viewing gallery, and a versatile space for fitness classes, social activities and meetings.
Q. What about other communities in North Norfolk?
A. The main facility would be built in Cromer and would serve a wide geographical area. In addition to this, as part of the project and the proposed funding agreements, a number of satellite tennis centres have been identified in the North Norfolk district for improvements. This ‘tennis network’ is made up of Wells Town Tennis Club, Alderman Peel High School, Fakenham Sports Centre (The Gallow) and North Walsham High School/dual use sports centre.
Q. Why is the Community Sports Hub being proposed?
A. Because the demand exists in the community for improved tennis facilities which can be used in all weather conditions and at all times of the year.
This has been demonstrated in the Indoor Leisure Facilities Strategy for North Norfolk, commissioned in 2015. This strategy clearly underpins the demand for an indoor tennis centre.
Since this strategy was published, there have also been site-specific feasibility and business case studies into the proposed project, which have demonstrated the viability of the project. The project fits with North Norfolk District Council’s corporate priorities, which include Health and Well-Being; and Delivering Service Excellence.
It also builds on the reputation of CLTSA’s proud record of continuing to create some of the very best grass courts in the UK.
On a national scale the project also helps to meet the overarching ambitions of the Lawn Tennis Association. Q. Why now?
A. External funding streams are available for application, the necessary land is available subject to final negotiation and North Norfolk District Council has agreed to commit capital monies to the proposal. In a comparatively difficult financial environment, this project is considered as a once in a generation opportunity, with a combination of factors contributing to its viability.
Q. Who are the key partners in the project?
A. The key partners are Cromer Academy, the Cromer Lawn Tennis and Squash Association (CLTSA), the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and North Norfolk District Council.
Q. How much will it cost?
A. The Hub and additional improvements to other facilities in the district would cost almost £3.2m.
The financing model sees the council contributing 75% – around £2.4m – with a bid to the Lawn Tennis Association intended to fund the remainder.
Q. What is the current sports and social provision at CLTSA?
A. 10 grass courts, four floodlit all-weather courts (two hard and two omni), two squash courts, table tennis, changing facilities, a clubhouse and bar.
Q. What will be the future sports and social facilities be on the combined site?
A. All of the above, but with three indoor tennis courts, a new gym and changing rooms and a mixed use area for fitness and social events.
Q. What are the proposed changes to the arrangements between the Council and the CLTSA and why are they necessary?
A. The two Omni courts would transfer to the Academy to make up the lost land for the indoor courts. This is a requirement of the Academy, to release the land for the indoor courts.
The Academy has to show that by working in partnership on the tennis facility it will improve the curriculum at the school in terms of its sports offer and also that it is only giving a certain amount of its land away for non-Academy uses. This is a judgement made by the Secretary of State for Education and therefore has to comply with government rules. There is no possibility of the Academy utilising the newly created space when redundant buildings are demolished. The Omni courts will be overmarked for netball and basketball, as well as tennis, and will be made available for tennis use out of school hours. The two hard courts which remain with CLTSA would be re-covered as Omni courts. This is because the Club has told us that is its preference, especially for older members. The Council (or its leisure contractor) will take bookings and pay- ments for all courts across the site, to ensure all bookings are captured - this is a requirement of the LTA funding scheme. All payments for CLTSA courts will go direct into the CLTSA’s account. Q. What are the opening hours of the Community Sports Hub?
A. Cromer Academy will have use of the indoor tennis courts for around two and a half hours per school day. The courts will be open to all at all other times and the gym and social facility will be open to the public at all times.
Q. Will CLTSA members pay the same rate for the indoor courts as the public?
A. Membership of CLTSA will bring with it preferential rates for the indoor courts. The discount level has not yet been set.
Q. Who will maintain the CLTSA’s courts, buildings and activities?
A. CLTSA. Nothing will change in this regard.
Q. Will the Council’s subsidy still be in place?
A. Yes.
Q. Who will manage the Community Sports Hub?
A. The everyday operation of the facilities will be through the Council or its Leisure Contractor.
Q. Who will be employed at the site?
A. The Council will employ enough staff to manage the site, just as it does now with the dual use arrangements for the Academy’s facilities.
Q. How will users be represented?
A. There will be a Management Board formed from the key property stakeholders - Council, CLTSA and Academy - and a User Forum or similar, which will report into the Board.
Q. How long will it take to build?
A. Just over a year from now. The project milestones are: Public consultation April Planning Application May LTA Funding if successful June Planning Approval if successful early August Initial works on Academy site late August Construction of tennis building and ancillary facilities commences autumn Facility opens spring 2019 Q. What is the long term vision for the project?
A. To create a health and wellbeing legacy for tennis and other sporting/fitness activities in North Norfolk for all ages and all abilities.
Key partners support the LTA’s long term goals of doubling the numbers of children playing tennis and encouraging adults who already play, to play more often and all year around.
The LTA have pledged nationally to support innovative and creative ideas to meet local demand. They want to increase the number of covered and floodlit courts by 50% to boost available playing hours when it’s raining and when the sun has gone down. Currently only 7% of Britain’s 23,000 courts have covers.
Q. What are the benefits to young people?
A. Students at Cromer Academy will benefit from better playing facilities which can be used in a wider range of weather conditions and at all times of year.
An already healthy and popular youth coaching offer at CLTSA will have new opportunities to operate. CLTSA has a well-established coaching programme for more than 140 juniors.
The Sporting Centre of Excellence scheme, which currently offers coaching and expertise in four sports in Holt, will consider adding tennis to their offer in Cromer as an additional sport.
Q. What type of building is being planned?
A. The Community Sports Hub will be a ‘framed fabric’ build. A traditional built facility would cost approximately £1.5m more to build.
Q. Is the name of the Community Sports Hub set in stone?
A. No, the working title of the project is Community Sports Hub, there may be an option to change this name when the facility opens.
Q. How does this project fit into the wider picture of leisure activity in North Norfolk?
A. The project helps to protect tennis provision in North Norfolk and Cromer into the long term. The Community Sports Hub is one of three major pieces of leisure work currently underway in North Norfolk. The other two are the proposed rebuild of a leisure facility in Sheringham and the procurement of a new leisure management contract for the district’s leisure facilities, which include Splash Leisure and Fitness Centre in Sheringham, Victory Swim and Fitness Centre in North Walsham and Fakenham Sports and Fitness Centre.
Together the three projects demonstrate a very significant investment in leisure across the district designed to increase footfall, drive up health outcomes and improve revenue generation.
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