York St. John’s College has submitted a planning application which would see the construction of a sports hall with associated changing, teaching and social facilities following demolition of the pavilion at the Mille Crux Sport Park.
Master plan for Haxby Road sports centre
The sports hall will be the equivalent in size to 5 badminton courts and will incorporate changing rooms, a “strength and conditioning” suit, flexible teaching space and catering facilities.
The proposal is the third part of the development of the sports park on the 24 hectare site on Haxby Road
It was granted planning permission 2 years ago
Full details of the current application can be found by clicking here
Ironically both the planning applications make mention of the York Knights RFL side saying that they are users of the facility.
There were indeed high hopes of a link up in 2013 as part of the Community Stadium deal but that relationship seems to have gone sour.
The York Council is apparently refusing to talk to the Knights owner following an acrimonious legal wrangle which ended a couple of months ago.
The Knights in turn are saying that they want a guarantee of being able to play games at Bootham Crescent until the new Community Stadium is completed.
Given that the Community Stadium project is already 2 years behind the schedule agreed in 2010 that may not be an unreasonable request.
It is about time that both sides sat down and talked through a solution.