Deeside Leisure Centre rebuild, Wrexham woes and other links [30-04-09]
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| 14:55 UK time, Monday, 30 March 2009
North Wales Fire Service warn arson on the rise in Flintshire - Evening Leader
Arsonists were responsible for more than 300 deliberate fires in Flintshire last year.
Deano to go? You must must be stupid! - BBC 606 Messageboard | Wrexham FC
That's just one of the views as fans speak out due to the team's run of results. Meanwhile, others are talking of clearing out Wrexham's dead wood before the end of the season.
Deeside Leisure Centre to be demolished - Evening Leader
Flintshire Council chiefs are planning to demolish Deeside Leisure Centre to make way for a new multi-million pound centre dubbed the "house of sport".
North Wales Police Chief scorns public meetings - Daily Post
He's looking for others ways to connect with people in local communities as figures show hardly anyone turns up to the force's community meetings. This very issue was raised earlier this month by Deeside Police after just one person turned up to a session at Sealand.
Estate residents given vote on where cash is spent - Wrexham Chronicle
A total of £15,000 will be allocated by a vote of all tenants in the Queensway ward of Wrexham under a new scheme using cash set aside from council rents.
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The current plight of Deeside's senior football club at Connah's Quay highlights the need for a municipal football stadium in the area. There are several locally based football clubs with youth sides and academies who might progress through the leagues but end up in Nomads' invidious position of being unable to play in the Welsh Premier League through dint of their not having adequate facilities - even the athletics ground at Deeside College falls short of the minimum numbers of seats to meet the UEFA standard.
The development at Park Hall, Oswestry where TNS have a synthetic pich built next to a new leisure centre, open to the public when they are not playing provides a useful model in how these complementary facilities can be successfully integrated. Given the scale of the remodelling, and that synthetic pitches are already planned, it wouldn't take much more infrastructure (pitchside seating, spectator cover for up to 3,500) to provide that would also be adaptable to other sports, e.g. hockey and that might become a standard model across Wales - something even the county planners could be proud of.
The regular television and press exposure of the football club would provide a regular advert for the whole venue and the ground could be shared by any of the local sides that make it into the top flight - a great incentive for the other teams like Aston Park Rangers, Shotton Steel and others playing a few divisions below senior level, as well as a fitting venue for Deeside's many finals at junior and amateur level.
I find it disappointing that this sort of development isn't on the drawing board from the very start. Deeside and Flintshire's long history of youth football leagues, Saturday and Sunday leagues prove that there is a significant and long established interest in football in the area and this is an opportunity to provide something relevant to local interests that will stimulate local pride in the community and provide a focus for local people's excellence and achievements.
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