Developer breaks ground at Tewkesbury’s new home for junior football
Bloor Homes has celebrated the start of its new ‘Tewkesbury Meadow’ development, where it will welcome Tewkesbury Colts Football Club
Bloor Homes has celebrated the start of its new ‘Tewkesbury Meadow’ development, where it will welcome Tewkesbury Colts Football Club to a brand-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 brand-new community sports pavilion – a project developed in close 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!”
Other plans for the public open space at the development include more than 2km of new hedgerow planting, a wildflower meadow, and a community orchard set to increase the on-site biodiversity by over 40%; this will represent a 41.34% increase in habitats and a 51.4% increase in hedgerows. These eco-conscious plans sit alongside the community sport project within the developers’ S106 financial contribution of over £4.4million towards community infrastructure. In addition, each new home built at Tewkesbury Meadow will be fitted with PV solar panels and have an electric vehicle charging point.
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.”
As a developer, Bloor Homes always seeks to work with the local community where we build, and by working with the Wheatpieces Parish Council and Tewskesbury Borough council, we have sought to identify and invest into what the town wants and needs as a community. Having worked with our Planning Manager Jonathan Bryan extensively on the public open space projects coming to Tewkesbury Meadow, it is undoubtedly exciting to be at the ground breaking today, and both Jonathan and I can’t wait to see it all come to life over the next year”.
Steve adds: “Although we are in the very early stages of building our new homes at Tewkesbury Meadow, we will soon have information on our website where people can register their interest for updates. We look forward to welcoming our first visitors to the sales office next Summer."
For more information about Bloor Homes, visit bloorhomes.com
For more information about Tewkesbury Colts FC and their upcoming fixtures, visit www.ttcfc.co.uk