Popular sports area gets a £40K makeover

12:00pm Tuesday 5th February 2013 in News

Mark Lygo. Mark Lygo.

THE next generation of sports stars will benefit from a revamped £40,000 games area in Oxford.

The multi-use games area at Peat Moors in Wood Farm was reopened on Friday.

The site has been resurfaced and painted and gives people the chance to play basketball, football, tennis, hockey and cricket.

The games area was officially opened by Mark Lygo, city council board member for parks and sports. He said: “The new facility will also encourage people who have been inspired by some of the sports at the London Olympics.

“This is what it is all about – inspiring the grassroots.”

Mr Lygo added: “Peat Moors is a well-used facility.

“It has been showing its age for some years and needed to be improved.”

The games area is free to use in the daytime but evening slots, which need floodlighting, have to be booked – call Chris Perks on 01865 764818.

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Comments(4)

Myron Blatz says...
8:42pm Tue 5 Feb 13

As with so many other things - from public toilets to community centres and sports recs - which have suffered from historical under-funding and neglect by City Council (as with Littemore's Priory Road alottment wilderness) putting-off repair and investment usually costs more to address in the long-term. This article doesn't say, but was this particular updating from the infamous 'Section 106' stash-of-cash, or the kindly benevolence of City Council in its belated attempts to reduce the high levels of Child Deprivation at the grass roots under the City's 'Dreaming Spires' so often alluded to?

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xjohnx says...
8:07am Wed 6 Feb 13

Well, so all the poor, homeless and sick have already been attended too!

Well done to the council.

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MrSooty says...
9:02am Wed 6 Feb 13

Any chance of £70 000 to get the diving pool going at Temple Cowley Pool ?I hear that diving is rather popular at the moment .

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Myron Blatz says...
12:50pm Wed 6 Feb 13

It's quite a-mazing what Oxford's Labour Group will apparently do, to sway voters in the run-up to County Council elections in May? Suddenly, Labour County Councillors and even its City Councillors are spending OUR money from accrued 'war chests' like water - though sadly, not for Temple Cowley. However, fear not, since going by City Council's 'previous' that in 20 or 30 years time, even the new pool at Blackbird Leys will probably have also degenerated into yet another of City's cost-ineffective liabilities - if only because of a lack of 'projected use' by the 12,000-plus people on the Leys who rarely use the current pool at Blackbird Leys - you can take people to the new pool (every two minutes on Stagecoach and Oxford Bus) but you can't make them get into the water, Cllr Price!

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