August 2025

The final design for the new community centre is almost completed. Future plans and elevations will be available here very soon. We will also add them to our village facebook page.

Please try to make time to visit here regularly and use the link below to contact us if you have any helpful comments. The final plans are a product of a great deal of input from residents over the seven years of this project and we are always grateful for your comments. The reason for a slight delay over the last couple of months is because of helpful feedback we had about our last set of plans and we have been making significant improvements as a result of this feedback. 

We are expecting the final plans to be submitted for planning approval in September with tendering for the project to follow and a possible start date in the spring or early summer of next year. 

There is no doubt that this has been a longer process than our planning group expected when we started seven years ago. The first plans fell foul of the explosion of costs experienced across the country a couple of years ago, causing us to rethink the project. This has now been done on the back of what we learnt from our first plans. With help from residents and excellent backing from the Parish Council I believe we have now a better plan, albeit smaller than the original. The plan features a large hall (built with potential to extend in future), a Community Room, a forty cover cafe, an outside courtyard, usable by the new centre and the pavilion, a refurbished MUGA and extra changing rooms for the HSSC. These are all facilities we don’t have at the moment in the middle of the village. 

The centre will attract activities to the village seven days a week. There will still be the school facilities to hire outside school hours but the centre will offer opportunities for all day every day use to our expanding village. 

How can you help?

What we need now is your support at this final stage. Please visit here and look at our Facebook posts and if you like what you see please say so. For most residents the enthusiasm for this project and the outward support we felt was subdued by the cost issues with the first plan as it reached its conclusion. We need that enthusiastic support back again. We need residents to get behind the project again and spread positivity about this new facility. 

We are still planning the engraved names on the centre’s windows of individuals, families and groups that have donated to the project. I’m hoping, once the building starts, to revive this and add more donations which will be used to add extras. Such items as quality furniture, more extensive landscaping and internal artwork are just some of the things that your donations could add to our building. Even more importantly, your display of support by word of mouth, emails to us or on-line, will help us when seeking grants locally to add even more extras and enhance the building. We need your support to be made public again. 

I hope that all residents will start to be vocal in support for us in making this final push to get a new community centre. It’s for all of us and a wave of support can help in so many ways.

Please feel free to email your comments and support to

A.west3412@gmail.com