Modern Sports Facility Proposals For Former Groves Site

A disused piece of land in Wrexham could become home to a modern sports facility if planning proposals are passed. 

In an application submitted by Coleg Cambria, it is recommended that the site, which lies adjacent to the former Grove Park Girls School is used to create a new sports hall and associated parking.

The proposals to build a new sports and teaching facility on the 24,023 sq. metre site comes as part of ‘Phase Two’ of Coleg Cambria’s application to redevelop the site.

Last week Wrexham.com reported on proposals put forward by Coleg Cambria to take over the former Groves School and convert the building into a further educational facility.

The school itself has remained vacant since its closure in 2003, with part of the building demolished last year. At present the site consists of the ‘Grove Park Grammar School For Girls’ building, an area of cleared ground, hard play areas and areas of amenity grassland playing field.

Coleg Cambria are proposing to redevelop the former Groves school into a facility ‘for the benefit of your people of Wrexham and surrounding areas’. The site itself has been identified by both Wrexham Council and Coleg Cambria as a ‘sustainable site’ in a good central location to serve students and staff

The proposed sports hall site has remained vacant since June 2013, when part of the school was demolished. The plans, pictured below, show new sports facilities and a curved frontage on the site of the now demolished old concrete section of the Groves.

If both application’s put forward by Coleg Cambria are successful then hundreds of additional places at the college would be available for prospective students.

The planning application is expected to go before Wrexham’s Planning Committee at a later date.