Walsall rugby club expansion plan to meet demand
A rugby?club in Walsall will expand its clubhouse with a new rehabilitation gym, showers and changing facilities to help it grow in the future, under new plans revealed today.
Veseyans Rugby Football Club, in Streetly, wants to build a single storey extension onto its clubhouse and install three new floodlights on its pitches.
The club, in Little Hardwick Road, is struggling to cope with demand from sport teams using its facilities and it is hoped the changes will provide space for visiting junior teams.
Junior teams currently use shower and changing facilities in a temporary building.
Separate plans were lodged last month to create a new pitch at the club, with a decision yet to be made by planning chiefs.
It comes after an earlier application to build two new pitches was refused by Walsall Council under delegated powers listing a lack of parking among the issues.
The new plans also include providing additional toilets and storage facilities, and realigning the existing car park to provide 15 additional parking spaces.
Existing changing rooms can only accommodate two home teams and two away teams.
The club caters for more than 100 youngsters aged between 11 and 16, and also has senior teams.
Iain Tatlow, junior chairman at the club, said the number of youngsters joining the club had grown dramatically in the last four years.
Former students from the Bishop Vesey's Grammar School formed the club in 1928.
In 1973, it became an open club.
