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[Albion] Training complex - expansion plans submitted



Weststander

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Another project for Martin Perry.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17471427.albion-submits-plans-for-training-ground-extension/

The new "club hub" will include a building with women’s and girls’ changing rooms, community changing rooms and pitch-side seating for parents and coaches.

Albion said they were also “committed to embracing the emerging and expanding interest in women’s football”.

Mr Perry said: "Since we opened the training facility, Brighton & Hove Albion is the only club south of London to be awarded a Tier 1 licence for women’s and girls teams and are now becoming established in the fully professional Women’s Super League, the top division of Women’s football in this country.

“We want to retain this licence and help develop women’s football in the south of England, with many beneficiaries coming from Sussex.

"To do this we need dedicated facilities for our elite women’s and girls’ teams, to help develop future talent through our academy."

On the first floor of the proposed extension there would be facilities exclusively for the first team coaches and support staff.

This would include a “wellness spa” area which the club says would “further facilities to support player welfare, health and fitness”.

The spa would feature a relaxation lounge, lounger area, jacuzzi, footbaths, a sauna, a steam room, hot and cold plunge pools and a UV heat pod.

There are also several other developments in the planning application.

These include three new pitches and a “training grid” which would see the ground expanded to the south east of the existing site.
 








PILTDOWN MAN

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Could be some good jobs available soon.
 




Not Andy Naylor

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‘Becoming established in the Women’s Super League’? Does second from bottom count as ‘established’?
 




dingodan

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It's going to be the sickest training ground in the entire Championship.
 












GT49er

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It would be good if they could also expand the capacity for watching U18, U21 and U23 matches - and make it seem more welcoming for casual/occasional fans to just turn up to watch (yes, and just POTG without having to be STHs, or members of this that or the other loyalty points scheme, with all their details, from bank details to inside leg measurement all safely logged on PB's computer) - sometimes it feels as if the club don't really want people watching the youth teams.
 


British Bulldog

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The local nimby brigade have been all over this one already, the existing training ground hasn't caused total gridlock and people drowning in their beds through flooding as predicted so this is bound to?
 












Mr Bridger

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The three extra pitches, will they form part of the Ikea car park?
Taking it further, the Ikea cafe could be catering.

The stands can be erected by DIYers before each game looking at shitty diagrams with a load of screws left over.
 






Weststander

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The local nimby brigade have been all over this one already, the existing training ground hasn't caused total gridlock and people drowning in their beds through flooding as predicted so this is bound to?

They’ll whine, then lose. The planning committe will welcome yet more jobs.
 



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