A NORTH Oxford football club is set to get two pavilions replaced thanks to thousands of pounds in grant funding.

Summertown Stars AFC’s Cutteslowe Park building will be demolished later this year, chairman David Rundle said, to make way for a £500,000 replacement.

And it is also hoping to replace its Five Mile Drive playing field pavilion, at a cost of about £70,000.

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Mr Rundle said the work at Cutteslowe Park would be paid for by grants from Oxford City Council and national sport funding organisations. The pavilions are both owned by the council, which leases them to the club.

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Mr Rundle said: “Things are in motion now for our pavilion in Cutteslowe Park to be demolished by the new year. We have worked very closely with the city council on this project and are confident we can deliver it next year.”

Cash from one funding body, which he did not want to name at this stage, has been confirmed, he said, and a final decision is expected from the other in January. He said: “Our pavilions are about 45 years old now and frankly they have become obselete and need to be renewed. We have more than 500 players across Cutteslowe Park and Five Mile Drive and that requires a lot of facilities.”

A draft design for the Cutteslowe pavilion has been agreed by the club and the city council.

The new building will have changing rooms for players and referees, better storage facilities and a social space.

It is not yet clear where funding for the replacement pavilion in Five Mile Drive will come from.

Mr Rundle said: “We are trying to win grant funding for it but at the moment there is a bit of a gap.

“It could be that we end up trying to raise money through the community.”


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