£100,000 of community funding from Bath & North East Somerset Council will see three areas of Bath benefitting from new sporting and play facilities.
The projects are being funded thanks to the latest round of the Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL).
CIL funds directly support community improvement schemes such as schools, transport links, open spaces and recreational facilities.
The £100,000 will be shared between the projects as follows:
- £45,000 to Whiteway Community Association for a Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA). This will allow different users of play areas to benefit from the development of a sustainable and low maintenance facility that can be used by the whole community.
- £17,500 to Combe Down Rugby Club to replace the floodlights with energy-efficient LED lights. The current lamps were installed at various dates between 1980 and 2000 and are expensive to run and ineffective for evening matches. New LED lamps will give better directional lighting, benefiting neighbours as well as using less power and being cheaper to run.
- £37,500 to Sandpits Park for improvements to the play equipment and the creation of a football pitch area. The funding will help improve facilities for older children and young people by installing a multigame sports wall at one end of the pitch that would also allow for basketball, as well as providing new climbing equipment for 5-9 year-olds.
Councillor Dine Romero, council Leader, said: “I am very pleased to have approved the funding for these exciting projects today. Sport and outdoor activity supports people’s wellbeing as well as their physical health, which is even more important when we are all living with restrictions imposed on us by the pandemic.
“These new facilities will be fit for the future and will benefit the local communities for decades to come.”
