It will become the home of the Argyle women’s first team and host other grassroots sports clubs. The aim will also be for the club to attain ‘Category 2’ status to ensure that it can attract and retain talented players across the entire South West region.
Plans that would see the transformation of the underutilized Brickfields site in Devonport into a new permanent home for Plymouth Argyle’s academy have been submitted. The major plans include the installation of new facilities for Plymouth Argyle Youth Academy, including new pitches, a building for classrooms and office space, play zones, and better site access and parking.
It will become the home of the Argyle women’s first team and host other grassroots sports clubs. The aim will also be for the club to attain ‘Category 2’ status to ensure that it can attract and retain talented players across the entire South West region.
Plans to transform the Brickfields leisure centre into a community hub and provide a centre of excellence for the city are already under way. This second phase of the scheme will see the wholesale redevelopment of Brickfields to provide a range of community and sport facilities, including new grass and all-weather 3G pitches, Play Zones exclusively for public use, better access, public areas, and parking.
Argyle, the Argyle Community Trust (which is the club’s official charity), Plymouth City Council, Plymouth Albion RFC, and Devonport Community Leisure Ltd. have come together for the £21 million project. As part of the plans, Argyle will provide an £11 million investment towards the project, with £7.26 million coming from the Argyle Community Trust and £2.75 million from Plymouth City Council.
Under the development, planning permission is sought for the demolition of two existing ancillary buildings and the removal of the existing artificial pitch. Provision of a new football youth academy building, 2x artificial pitches with floodlighting, re-laying of 1x artificial pitch, 2x grass pitches with spectator stand and floodlighting, multi-use games zone, ancillary maintenance building and kiosk, external improvements to existing changing room block, and associated retaining works and landscaping improvements. The formal application has been submitted to Plymouth City Council this week.
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