Public toilets plan for Welshpool sports clubs
The club’s secretary last night unveiled an ambitious plan that will address drainage issues at their three new pitches, whilst adding new toilet facilities that will be located so that they can be used by the Rugby Club and Waterloo Rovers Football Club.
The Wayne Evans Playing Fields, opened last summer following a tremendous community fundraising campaign, run alongside the canal but due to the torrential rain over the past six months, they have been redundant since October.
“At the moment you could grow rice on them due to the amount of rain there has been,” explained Eva Bredsdorff, who addressed Welshpool Town Council last night on behalf of the club and its Juniors section.
“We’ve not been on them since last October so additional drainage is required which is inevitably expensive.
“But our proposal also includes new equipment to work on the pitches which can also be used by Town Council ground staff for other pitches down at Maesydre.
“They have done a brilliant job for us so we see this as a way of repaying them by letting them use this new equipment.”
Ms Bredsdorff added that the new toilet block planned for the car park at the end of the rugby pitch would be accessible to all sports clubs using the facilities in that location, explaining that it would be an “all singing, all dancing solar powered and environmentally-friendly facility" that would utilise rain water that would be treated for flushing and hand washing.
“It’s a long way to the toilets from those pitches so we feel it will be a tremendous addition to the facilities down there,” she said, adding that she would be submitting the £230,000 grant application today (Thursday).
She also said that the club’s focus would turn to this pressing project, with previously submitted plans for new changing facilities at the old pitch would be put on ice.
Councillors backed the proposal which includes four toilets as well as a disabled facility.
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