Club House Extension
With nearly a hundred members, the clubhouse's
facilities are being stretched, with the social area and
the changing rooms being too crowded. To allow the club
to flourish and all the activities and courses to
continue, the committee is currently looking at how to
add an extension to the clubhouse, approximately
doubling its size.
Note that this is a long-term project and maybe
months or years before we can clear all the hurdles and
obtain sufficient funds to complete this work.
John Martell, Phil Rowsell and Chris Cullen have started
this process with a few speculative design drawings and
gaining general agreement from the Yacht Club that we
can have more space. However, it looks as if we will
have to wait for the new lease on the land to be agreed
first - which is in 2014 - before we can access any BCU
funding. So in the meantime, we will keep looking and
seeing if we can fund-raise to improve our current
facilities.
The initial proposals are essentially to create a new
changing room/shower block next to the existing
clubhouse, moving the Canadian canoe store further
towards the sea. The clubhouse would become a larger
social room and a clothing store (for the cags,
trousers, buoyancy aids & helmets), whilst the new
building would contain four separate changing rooms for
male/female youths and male/female adults.
There is a long way to go in the process before anything
will happen with significant hurdles being:
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Funding arrangements
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Appointing an architect
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Gaining outline planning consent.
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Applying for grants from the BCU.
Discussing the options and issues with club members is
very important to us and you are encouraged to look at
the speculative ideas - they will be pinned to the club notice board.
Please let members of the committee have any ideas or
comments on the proposals. We may also be looking for
volunteers to help bring the plans to fruition in the
future...
We will keep this page updated as the ideas progress...