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
