Work begins at new £3.8m Clydebank Community Sports Hub

Work on a new £3.8 million community sports facility for Clydebank has officially started – with the state-of-the-art hub due to be up and running later this year.Clydebank Community Sports Hub (CCSH) is being built on the site of old playing fields at Dean Street in Whitecrook and will result in the delivery of a world-class sporting facility for rugby, Gaelic football and a range of other sports and activities.Ground was broken at the site with Councillor Iain McLaren, West Dunbartonshire Council’s convener of infrastructure, regeneration & economic development, and Councillor Diane Docherty, vice convener, joined by Scottish minister for local government and housing, Kevin Stewart, in cutting the first sod.Facilities including a new full size, flood-lit, all-weather synthetic pitch, two re-developed grass pitches, 10 community allotments and newly renovated indoor sports facilities ? with room for clubs and community groups to meet – are all part of the project.The CCSH project has been driven by three sports clubs working closely in partnership to secure a new home and has received backing from the Scottish Government, West Dunbartonshire Council, sportscotland, the Gaelic Athletic Association, Cashback for Communities, Scottish Rugby, The Robertson Trust and Barr Environmental Limited through the Scottish Landfill Communities Fund.Glaschu Gaels Gaelic Football Club, Clydebank Rugby Club and GTF Tae Kwon do club will all utilise the facilities for training, competition and community events. And the team behind CCSH hopes to attract more local clubs and teams once the facility is opened.The synthetic grass pitch is suitable for rugby, Gaelic football and football and ? due to the different pitch dimensions required for the three sports ? it is thought it will be the biggest synthetic pitch of its kind in the UK.