Clubhouse

All-weather Pitch, with Tartan Running-track

We have applied to the Planning Department of Fingal County Council for Outline Planning Permission.  We must take it forward now.  The first step is for the club to agree the clubhouse, what is contained therein, i.e. no. of dressing rooms, cafe, meeting room, etc.

We have also applied to the Dept of Arts, Sport and Tourism, for National Lottery funding.  The timing of our project is such as to make it easier for the Dept to approve our submission.  Our planned development is the construction of the clubhouse in phase-1, to begin in Sept 06 and completed by March 07. Phase-2 will be the synthetic surface track and football pitch, to begin in Sept 07, and completed by the spring of 2008.  The overall project is very costly.  While we tried to schedule the timing to optimise the Dept's funding, there is no certainty that we will get the funding necessary on this occasion.

Clubhouse   €0.7m

All-weather Pitch and Running track   €1.4m

We have applied for 70% funding, which would leave the 2 clubs having to raise €0.3m each, and using up all our cash as well, which is not sizeable. Essentially, we each will have to take out a loan of €0.3m over 20 years or whatever our financial experts advise. 

We will discussing this at our Managers Meeting on Monday, 30th in Kavanaghs, at 8.30pm.