Consent for Rovers training ground plans

Bristol Rovers have been awarded planning permission for a new training ground in Almondsbury.South Gloucestershire Council has now given its consent for the new facility, proposed for land at Colony Farm, off Hortham Lane.The club are proposing to develop new training facilities, including a clubhouse, pitches and floodlights on the site.Planning permission for a training facility was originally granted in 1993 and renewed a number of times but work was not completed.Rovers applied earlier this year to remove two conditions attached to the existing planning consent, dating from 2001.Chairman Steve Hamer said: “We are delighted with the outcome of the planning application to develop a new training ground on a site at Colony Farm and look forward, as a club, to progressing the acquisition.”Approval has been granted subject to a number of conditions, including that the facility is not used for professional matches or games with paid admission.