Tuesday, June 12, 2012

NEW FOOTBALL FACILITIES IN WEMBLEY


A new sports ground is to open near Preston Road Station in North Wembley giving local footballers first-class pitches to play on.

Local young people in particular will benefit from the opening of the Pellatt Road Sports Ground, which will host an extensive football programme for players from Fryent run by AFC Wembley.

Residents are being invited to take a first-look at the fantastic new facility at an event on June 16, where young people will also be able to put their names down for the football programme.

Brent Council worked with AFC Wembley and Middlesex FA to develop the £135,500 project and win a Football Foundation grant to help pay for it.

The former GEC sports ground at Pellatt Road was drained and re-levelled so it can now be used all year round for football and Gaelic football, and a full-sized pitch, a youth football size pitch and two mini-pitches were added to the pavilion already there. It will open to the public from August.

The football programme is aimed at giving local young people somewhere to go and play and to reduce anti-social behaviour in the area.

See the location here - http://goo.gl/maps/Vi55

George Crane

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