Champions Await Council Decision on New Stadium

Last updated : 07 June 2005 By Gary Fish

Total Network Solutions are awaiting a decision from Oswestry Borough Council for plans to use Park Hall as training facilities for the club, while making it available for the public as well.

TNS finance director said: "We are waiting for the council to finish its feasibility study and come up with plans for the funding structure of the stadium, which are obviously things that the council has to do when spending public money.

"We have done quite a bit of remedial work at Park Hall and we are looking at putting in an artificial pitch at the moment."

"The state-of-the-art surface is approved by Uefa for European games, but is planned to combat the well-known problem of flooding at the ground during the winter.


"The new-generation pitch will offer a fall-back position should Oswald Park fail to materialise, also offering a permanent training base for the first-team and a new facility for local residents.


"We always need more than just a stadium – we need training pitches and it is no secret that Park Hall suffers a lot of flooding, meaning that two or three months a year we wouldn’t be able to go there.


"If we are going to put the artificial turf in, we might as well put the infrastructure in as well, so local people can use it. It will then help pay for itself too."


TNS have also said that they do not intend to use it as a venue to play first team football due to the problems it would cause.

"There is the problem of week in, week out, swapping between artificial surface and real grass when we play away, as well as possible injury risks, so it is not our intention to go over and play first-team games on the artificial pitch," he added