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The Council have now appointed a contractor to build a “Pavilion, Clubhouse and Changing Rooms” on Tadcaster Road near Sim Balk Lane.
It will become the home of a football team currently based in Bishopthorpe.
The contract was won by Fullwood of Pontefract
The cost is an eye watering £605,000.
In total the project is expected to cost £1.5 million. £491,000 has already been spent on new pitches.
This compared to the costs of new modular changing rooms which are available from less than £40,000 from a number of companies.
These include Sports Changing Rooms and York’s own Portakabin
The cost of the pavilion is controversial because it is being partly funded from monies generated by building on playing fields at Lowfield.
More modest changing facilities would have allowed the surplus to be used to provide an all-weather games area to replace both the facilities lost at Lowfields and also the Kingsway West children’s games area which the Council demolished earlier in the summer.
The Council has still not made any public announcement about the replacement games area which could be located on Thanet Road.
Local Rugby League side York Acorn, who play their matches on the Thanet Road Sport area, have won promotion to the National Conference Premier League.
They secured their place in the top flight with a 88 – 0 win yesterday against Dewsbury Moor.
A set of goal posts have disappeared from the playing field to the rear of Westfield Place.
The removal follows a series of actions by the York Council which has seen sports facilities eroded in what is York’s poorest neighbourhood. The sports field at Lowfields has been built on, the multi user games area closed and a (private) bowling green sold for housing.
No consultation took place before the set of goalpost were removed.
One set remains. The ward committee had been expected to arrange for the posts to be repainted, and the pitch remarked, before the start of the football season.
