MOVE US OR LOSE US
For 150 years Maidenhead United FC has been a key part of the fabric of the town. The success of its men’s and women’s adults teams, along with the significant growth of its grassroots football and wider community activities means that its existing York Road ground is no longer fit for purpose.
The disposal of the land at Braywick to Maidenhead United FC will deliver significant community benefit and will be advantageous to a range of stakeholders including the club & its supporters, Maidenhead Athletic Club and the Council and the local community.
Key advantages of the disposal include that it would:
• Enable the football club to retain a location close to
the town centre at a location which is already the established
sports hub for Maidenhead and benefits from good transport links
and infrastructure.
• Secure the future of Maidenhead United FC and extend the
economic benefit of the club to the town and the local business
community.
• Enable the trustees of Maidenhead United’s existing
York Road ground to invest all the proceeds from the sale of York
Road into a new community sports stadium incorporating additional
sports and wellbeing facilities.
• Deliver a community ownership structure of the new stadium
and associated facilities which secures its long-term benefit for
the local community and creates ring fenced income streams to
ensure the ongoing maintenance and upgrade of facilities.
• Provide the Maidenhead United’s successful men’s
and women’s football teams with stadium facilities which are
commensurate with the requirements of the competitions they play
in.
• Transform the safety, accessibility and overall quality of
stadium facilities available for all spectators/supporters of
Maidenhead United FC from the local community.
• Deliver much needed additional community sports facilities
for the town at NO COST to the Council. This includes two
astroturfs suitable for football and rugby and a covered sports
court facility for futsal and wheelchair sports.
• Deliver a new floodlit athletics track and associated
facilities, supported by England Athletics and Maidenhead Athletic
Club, again at NO COST to the Council or MAC
• Enable the Council to demonstrate it is facilitating a
tangible response to the known, and currently unmet, needs in
Maidenhead for additional astroturf facilities (with all existing
astroturfs in the town at capacity) as well as the need to replace
the towns existing dilapidated athletics facilities.
• Enable the Council to realise external investment for the
additional community sports facilities the town needs without the
requirement for contributions from Council budgets. This is a key
consideration given the Council’s current financial position
and the lack of available funding for investment in community
sports facilities across the borough.
• Support the health and wellbeing of the local community by
increasing the opportunities available for local people of all ages
and abilities to engage with sports, wellbeing and recreational
activities.
• Ensure that Maidenhead United Women and Maidenhead United
Futsal have a dedicated home in the town which stops them from
having to train and play competitive home matches at various venues
outside the borough.
• Provide facilities which will enable Maidenhead United to
address the needs it cannot currently be meet because of the lack
of facilities in the borough. This includes facilities required to
provide for the unmet demand for women and girls football, junior
football and men’s and women’s walking football. The
club has significant waiting lists in these areas because it cannot
access facilities to meet this demand.
• Provide a dedicated home for the Maidenhead United FC
Community Trust including a centralised wellbeing hub,
incorporating more services and offerings and enabling the more of
the most disadvantaged within our community to be supported to
improve their health and wellbeing.
• Provide a capital receipt for the Council as a direct result
of the land being leased to the Club, providing vital income which
can be reinvested to provide Council services or facilities.
• Allows the existing York Road site to be a
‘brownfield’ development providing hundreds of
residential units in the town centre.
To sign the hard copy of the petition, please get in touch.
Shay Bottomley
Email: shay.bottomley@outlook.com
Mobile: +44 7454 723237
Started by: Shay Bottomley
This ePetition ran from 01/10/2023 to 21/11/2023 and has now finished.
2119 people signed this ePetition.