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Recreation Ground Improvement Project

Wing Recreation Ground – Floodlit M.U.G.A. and Installation of Floodlighting to Tennis Courts

Wing Parish Council (PC) are seeking to appoint suitably experienced and qualified contractor, who are a member of the Sports and Play Construction Association, to carry out the works on Wing Recreation Ground, Leighton Road, Wing, Buckinghamshire, LU7 0NW.

All artificial surfaces and floodlighting should be constructed to meet SAPCA and ILP standards. Floodlights carefully designed to minimise light pollution by selecting lighting that meets the criteria to localise luminance and confine it, as far as possible, to the pitches/courts.

Meet the National Governing Body standards in terms of design, dimensions, drainage, foundations, and construction. The pitches should be equipped to the Governing Body recommendations including provision of goals, fencing, posts and nets.

The work will include the installation of a floodlit M.U.G.A. the installation of floodlights to two of the existing tennis courts but with an option for all three courts.

The site of the new M.U.G.A. is to be placed partially on the existing car park and partially on the lower field. The tennis court floodlighting is to be installed to the existing courts. Planning permission for a floodlit M.U.G.A and floodlighting for the tennis courts was Granted in 2019 (See planning app 19/01263/APP). Available on Buckinghamshire Councils Planning Portal. The Parish Council is open to consider a lower specification of floodlighting that can deliver the requirements below.

Total estimated value excluding VAT: £115,000

Here is a link to the tender documents
Click here for the Tender Documents

Further details are available on the published notice on the Find a Tender service or Contracts Finder:

Find A Tender Notice

Contracts Finder Notice

All tenders must be received by post at the address below and the time limit for receipt of tenders is
8 April 2022

If you are interested in participating in this project, please contact: Wing Parish Council, PO Box 6441, Leighton Buzzard, Beds, LU7 6FT or via email to the Clerk at wingparishclerk@gmail.com

Wing Recreation Ground Tender Advert – December 2021

Wing Parish Council are seeking to appoint a suitably experienced and qualified Design and Build contractor to carry out the works to Wing Recreation Ground, Leighton Road, Wing, Buckinghamshire, LU7 0NW.

The work will include the demolition of the exiting Bowls Clubhouse, construction of a new pavilion, for Bowls and Football Clubs and community use, car park extension and amendment to the vision splay and necessary drainage works.

The site of the new pavilion is to be on the site of the existing Bowls clubhouse. Planning permission of a new pavilion has been Granted (See planning app 19/04069/APP). The Parish Council is open to consider alternative simpler form building designs that can deliver the requirements.

The football changing rooms and facilities must be to Football Association standards for both Home and away teams and officials.

Total Estimated value:

Value excluding VAT: £800,000

Here is a link to the tender documents

Click here for the Tender Documents

Further details are available on the published notice on the Find a Tender service:

https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/030551-2021

Time limit for receipt of tenders 11 February 2022

If you are interested in participating in this project, please contact: Wing Parish Council, PO Box 6441, Leighton Buzzard, Beds, LU7 6FT or via email to the Clerk at wingparishclerk@gmail.com

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Recreation Ground Project – Expenditure and Grants

Wing Recreation Ground Project Update – 11.02.2022

Background to the Project

  1. The Wing Recreation Ground Project began in 2015 when an application was submitted for a New Homs Bonus (NHB) Grant to make improvements to the recreation ground. That application was rejected due to a Section 106 agreement being reached with Martin Grant Homes which duplicated funding for some of the elements of the project. A second application to NHB as made in 2016 and was approved for spend on new capital assets. In 2016 Following the granting of that funding Wing PC commenced developing a planning application for the Rec Ground.
  2. In November 2017 the PC submitted a planning application for two full fitted portakabins on the site of the existing bowls club adjacent to the Tennis club, that application was objected to by Aylsebury Vale District Councils (AVDC)Heritage Officer.
  3. In January 2018, the rules for the NHB funding changes and the funds were allowed to be used to refurbish existing buildings, therefore the PC changed its plans to refurbishing and extending the existing bowls and football club pavilions, to remove the heritage objections. In July 2018 a revised NHB application was submitted for additional funding for the project, however at that time the Woodland Trust assigned a veteran tree status to the Oak tree next to the football pavilion, which meant that plans to extend that building were limited, and resulted in several delays in AVDC determining the planning application. In Oct 2018 the additional NHB funding was granted.
  4. In March 2019 the planning application to extend the existing bowls and football pavilions was withdrawn and in April 2019 a new planning application (19/01263/APP) for a single Pavilion on the site of the Bowls Club was submitted. Planning was granted for that application in September 2019. The project was tendered in the summer of 2019, however the bids received were outside of the affordability envelope of the PC. A value engineering exercise took place to explore options to reduce the cost of the Pavilion development which resulted in a further planning application (19/04069/APP) with a reduced floor plan being submitted to AVDC. Planning permission was granted for the revised floor plan in March 2020.
  5. Since March 2020 the project has been further delayed due to the impact of COVID in the UK, and by the need to further explore means of reducing the cost of the Pavilion development.

Football Pitch levelling and re-seeding

  1. In the meantime the Parish Council pressed on with the part of the recreation ground project that included the digging up of the football pitch, the removal of any large stones and flint (that could cause injury to players) and the levelling up and reseeding of the football pitch.
  2. That work commenced in the spring of 2021 and was completed later that summer. The newly levelled pitch requires a growing season to ensure the grass seed has taken properly and to be able to reseed any patches, before it is ready to be played up on. It is intended that the new football pitch will be ready to be used for competitive games by Spring 2022.

Pavilion

  1. Due to the elapse of time since the last tender was received and the gap between the price tendered and what the PC can afford, with the funding available, the PC has decided to re-advertise for a design and build contractor to demolish the existing bowls club, construct a new Pavilion with pedestrian walkways, to extend the carpark and amend the vision splays to the Leighton Road (A418).
  2. Whilst planning approval was been obtained for the original scheme, the PC is looking for a much simpler form of building in order to reducing the overall construction cost of the building, so long as the building provides FA compliant changing rooms for the Football Club, an open plan area of approximately 90 square meters of accommodation for community use, a kitchenette and toilet facilities, including disabled toilets for the users of the building and visitors.
  3. In the summer 2021 the PC secured an extension to the NHB funding for the project, so long as work has commenced on the project prior to the end of current financial year (end of March 2022). There is therefore an urgent need to appoint a Design and Build contractor for the works. The PC therefore issued a tender for the Pavilion in December 2021 and bids are due back by the middle of February 2022.
  4. Following the receipt of bids and the tender evaluation the PC hope to be able to appoint a contractor to undertaken the works in February, so that the building work can commence as soon as possible.
  5. As well as the work on the Pavilion the appointed contractor will be required to undertake the work to extend the car park by an additional 40+ spaces and to widen the entry to the carpark to improve the vision from the carpark as vehicles exit out on to the Leighton Road.

Muga Pitch and Floodlighting

  1. Once the tenders for the Pavilion have been received the PC will be advertising for contractors to undertake the work to provide a Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA) on the recreation ground and to provide associated floodlighting to the MUGA and Tennis Courts to enable them to be used for longer periods during the day and throughout the year.