REVISED plans for a Worcester City’s proposed new home at Perdiswell have been submitted to council planning chiefs.
And now Worcester residents are being invited to have their say on the plans for the community sports stadium off Bilford Road.
The revised planning application, jointly prepared by the club and its Supporters’ Trust, sees the proposed stadium moved from its original position, in response to concerns raised in the 2015 consultation over the original plans.
The application is for a floodlit football stadium with a capacity of just over 4,400, along with a separate floodlit all-weather 3G pitch, plus car parking.
The plans have been revised to ensure the scheme has less impact on the Worcester to Birmingham Canal Conservation Area.
The main stadium is proposed to be built to the north-east of the recently refurbished and extended Perdiswell Leisure Centre.
Its new position also means it would be further from the leisure centre’s changing rooms.
The stadium has also been redesigned so that it would more closely match the look of the leisure centre.
It is now proposed to have brickwork lower walls and an aluminium-clad upper section with colours ranging from white to light blue.
The stadium would feature 15-metre high lighting columns and would have extensive landscape on its eastern side, to limit its impact on the canal and the adjoining dog track.
The separate all-weather pitch is proposed to be moved from its original position to the north of the main stadium to sit beside the leisure centre on its north-west side.
Floodlit with 10-metre high lighting columns, the all-weather pitch would be available for community hire and the applicants have held discussions with Heart of Worcestershire College and Tudor Grange Academy about their teams playing there on a regular basis.
The scheme would include a car park with 82 spaces, including two with charging points for electric vehicles.
City chiefs have estimate 823 supporters would turn out on an average match day and would need to use 97 parking spaces.
To make up the shortfall in parking spaces, the applicants are proposing to use some of the leisure centre’s parking spaces.
Consultation on the plans will run until 5pm on Tuesday, March 21 and all feedback will then be considered before the application is discussed by members of Worcester City Council’s planning committee.
Visit www.worcester.gov.uk/planning and go to Planning Application Search and entering the application number, P14M0176 to look at the application.
