Cunninghame to help deliver Gretna community sports hub

Cunninghame Housing Association has teamed up with Raydale Community Partnership and Gretna FC 2008 to create a new community sports hub in the heart of Gretna for local residents.Working together over the past 12 months, the organisations have developed new proposals for the installation of a new 3G synthetic 11-a-side pitch at Raydale Park together with a new community gym, multipurpose fitness room and changing facilities – and the partnership is working hard to secure the funding necessary to make the project happen.Over the next few weeks local residents will see the first phase of the development starting to take shape with the arrival of two large portacabins which have been sourced by Cunninghame Housing Association from a site in Lockerbie.These will be transported to the site in Gretna and placed in position at Raydale Park, before being refurbished and the fitted out over the next few months to create new accessible and affordable facilities for local people.Frank Sweeney, chief executive of Cunninghame Housing Association, also welcomed this latest development.