Scarborough Rugby Club expansion approved despite landscape concerns
Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 9 Oct, 06:19 · Archive
Councillors have approved a major expansion of Scarborough Rugby Union Football Club after overturning a recommendation for refusal.
Scarborough Rugby Union Football Club's expansion has been approved following a council meeting on 8 October, when councillors voted to overturn a recommendation that the plans should be refused.
The scheme includes converting an existing grass training pitch into an artificial 3G/4G surface, a new covered spectator stand built into the embankment between the club's first and second team pitches, a third padel court, two indoor rugby fives courts and extensions to the clubhouse.
The recommendation for refusal had raised concerns that the padel court and rugby fives extension would harm the character of the open countryside in Scalby and erode an important landscaped buffer along the site's southern boundary. A club representative told councillors the proposal would strengthen 'a long-established community sports facility that's been providing sporting, health and social benefits to local people for decades', and argued there were no technical objections to the scheme. Sport England had already given its support to the proposal.
How it is being reported
- New 3G pitch, padel court and rugby fives courts approved at Scarborough Rugby ClubTHE major expansion of a North Yorkshire rugby club has been approved after councillors voted to overturn a recommendation for refusal.Gazette & Herald (Malton) · 9 Oct, 05:00
- New 3G pitch, padel court and rugby fives courts approved at Scarborough Rugby ClubTHE major expansion of a North Yorkshire rugby club has been approved after councillors voted to overturn a recommendation for refusal.The Press (York) · 9 Oct, 05:00
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