Welshpool Football Club is making a bid to secure funding for a new toilet block for their three new pitches.
While looking to carry out a number of improvements to their grounds, Welshpool Football Club informed the town council at a meeting on March 27, that they are prioritising facilities for their three new pitches in Maes-Y-Dre.
Club secretary Eva Bredsdorff informed the council that Welshpool football Club was seeking out new equipment to help with the maintenance and drainage of the new pitches.
She said: “Tomorrow I shall push the submit button for a grant application to Cymru Football Foundation for additional drainage on our three new pitches and enough machinery to do what we need to do to properly sustain them.
“The last thing we want is to put a toilet block down on the car park furthest away, at the end of the rugby pitch, to be shared with the rugby club and Waterloo Rovers.
"The toilet block we have sourced is an all singing, all dancing, environmentally friendly unit, which uses solar panels for power, collects rain water, cleans it and uses it for hand washing. The unit would be independent so, should we wish to, we could move it at a later date.”
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Ms Bredsdorff added that the cost of these facilities means the club will be delaying its plans to install a new changing room and kit store, for which it submitted a planning application in November 2023.
She explained: “If we put that in with grant application the financial risk for the club would be too big, expenditure would be much higher.
"We thought it would be better to split the two projects up and focus on the new pitches as we desperately want them to be used more. Please be assured it does not mean we have given up the changing rooms or kit store.”
Councillors were also informed that the toilet block Welshpool FC were looking at had a 25 year guarantee and is designed to be safe, secure and vandal proof.
Ms Bredsdorff also told councillors that the club would be open to having a “friendly working relationship” with Welshpool Town Council in terms of loaning out their equipment free of charge.
Councillors voted in favour of supporting the club’s bid.
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