Kempsey Parish council have finally released the much awaited plans for the community and sports centre to be sited at Pixham Ferry lane. The ambitious project potentially costing £2.1m is due to have it’s planning application submitted March 2024 with funding of £1.43m coming from Malvern Hills District Council, and £407K coming from existing Parish council funds, with an estimated timeframe of 15 months will bring much needed facilities to the village.
Currently the village has a number of community spaces which are all in use
- The current community centre, only has a single room for use.
- The youth centre, only one room, limited parking.
- The sports pavilion, very basic, not well used.
Plovers rise the current facilities for football, cricket and other sports all the the same grassed area which degrades in winter causing some matches to be cancelled. The different sports also require different playing surfaces, the new Pixham ferry lane project will provide a bigger multi-use site allowing plovers rise to re-establish other sports groups to the site.
It looks really good, finally something other than more houses being built and somewhere to grab a coffee.
We visited the public consultation showcase at Plovers rise on Sunday 6th February, councillors were on hand to answer any questions, and it seemed well organised – let’s hope the KPC can deliver.
The main entrance to the site will be on Old Road South, just north of the crossroad with Pixham Ferry Lane for vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians. Coming from the north along the Main road (A38), the preferred route by road to the main entrance is along Pixham Ferry Lane.
Currently a narrow lane. Work is due to start in the next 3 months by constructing four large passing bays.
[…] attended by hundreds back in the summer of 2023 to bring a Skate Park and Pump Track to the new Community and Sports centre seems to have been missed out at the Kempsey Parish councils public […]
Whilst I appreciate some of you maybe in favour of this. I would however like you to consider the following.
1. Cars will be parked by your homes as Old Road South will be chaotic with traffic.
2. The noise will be horrific traffic will be constant. Fumes will be constant. Diesel from Lorrie’s who will be delivering food to cafe. Also deliveries for the centre.
3. It will devalue the price of your home.
4. We already have drug dealers what else will this bring.
5. It will not be gated so car park will be a race course at night times gangs will congregate there instead of the corner.
6. The building itself is not small 600 metres square. Not a hut that many of us have been led to believe.
7. Full sized pitches not five a side.
8. My main concern is the damage and destruction to wild life. Badgers. Foxes. Squirrels Newts. You name it, it’s there.
The road is not wide enough to accommodate all those cars ..
a new place could be good but kempsey has a real issue with anti social behaviour… maybe this will attract more unwanted behaviour? Maybe not but only time will tell.
It looks really good, finally something other than more houses being built and some where to grab a coffee
I’m concerned that the changing facilities are not single sex spaces.
Many pre-teen girls and teenage girls play football and the interest is growing across the country.
At a time in a young teenage girls life when hormonal changes are significant,I can only imagine the ‘awkward issues’ they might encounter using a space that is also used by teenage boys and men….in truth they will go home to avoid embarrassment.
I would like the views of other Mums here. Thank you.
Ex Parish Councillor Susan Bott(the Daffodil planter)
When I raised the fact this is completely in the wrong location I got presented with a shrug and a “we know”. That location is habitat so such a diverse range of amazing species. Let’s use this to our advantage. What an asset to have this habitat. Let’s use this to educate our kids, community kitchen garden, nature trail, small community farm. There are so many other options that that Parish could have fought for. We have sports provision, and yes maybe not enough but find me a community in England that does. This is a glorified football club. It saddens me that we/the parish council are bulldozing an incredible habitat for so many animals when we could use it to learn more about whats around us. This will not solve parking issues, just move it to another location and it will not solve demand to play football. It will be a whit elephant in years to come and not congruent with this village. No doubt none of these views are popular with the young families but I just wished would could have been more clever about this. I appreciate there are stipulations to the money but wheres there’s a will there’s always an answer
(Apologies for terribly written response, was written in a rush) but hopefully the sentiments are legible