Developer breaks ground on football club’s new home
Bloor Homes has marked the start of its new Tewkesbury Meadow development where it will welcome Tewkesbury Colts Football Club to a new community sports pavilion with accompanying playing fields to call their home ground.
The developer invited individuals from the local football club, as well as councillors from Wheatpieces Parish Council and Tewkesbury Borough Council, to mark the occasion at its new development site in Tewkesbury, where the phase of 238 two, three, four and five-bedroom new-build homes will be launching in summer 2025.
Alongside the 148 open market and 95 affordable homes being built, Bloor Homes is providing over 3.5 acres of new playing fields for the local club, as part of the 18 acres of formal and informal public open space planned for Tewkesbury Meadow.
The new fields will be situated next to the new community sports pavilion – a project developed in collaboration between Tewkesbury Colts FC, Sports England, Gloucestershire County Council, Tewkesbury Borough Council and other local stakeholders – complete with changing facilities, a community hall, meeting room and catering facilities for club and wider public use, as well as a dedicated car park.
Paul Moseley, vice chair at Tewkesbury Colts FC, said “We are unbelievably excited to see work beginning at the site of our new sporting home. The Club will benefit greatly from the new facilities being built by Bloor Homes as part of the sports pavilion project at Tewkesbury Meadow, and we look forward in anticipation to our move next summer. It’s going to be a huge win for the whole community.”
Steve Roberts, managing director for Bloor Homes’ Western region, said: “Being in the heart of the town for many years, we were very aware of the need for a home for junior football in the town, and we’re excited to bring just that to the community through the new sports pavilion and playing facilities at Tewkesbury Meadow. To gather everyone here today to celebrate the beginning of a new chapter for Tewkesbury Colts Football Club and the wider community is a delight for us, and we can’t wait to welcome everyone to the new development and public open spaces come Summer 2025.”
Caption: Bloor Homes, Tewkesbury Colts FC, Wheatpieces Parish Council and Tewkesbury Borough Council celebrate the new sport facilities coming to local development. Back left to right: Nick Rawlings (Planning Director, Bloor Homes Western region), James Heath (Chair, Tewkesbury Town Colts FC), Cllr Stuart Meredith (Chair, Wheatpieces Parish Council), Paul Moseley (Vice-Chair, Tewkesbury Colts Football Team), Steve Roberts (Managing Director, Bloor Homes Western region), Cllr Chrissy Reid (Vice-Chair, Wheatpieces Parish Council), Jonathan Bryan (Planning Manager, Bloor Homes Western region). Front left to right: Cllr Helena Sundarajoo (Tewkesbury Borough Council), Cllr Hilarie Bowman (Tewkesbury Borough Council).
