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Drone footage shows work on new Leicester City training ground

Leicester City Football Club

Drone footage shows work on new Leicester City training ground

Civil Engineering, Construction & Build

The footage was captured by Zac Soden for the Leicestershire from the Sky Facebook group.

There will be 11 full-size pitches, with smaller pitches and outdoor training areas, plus a full-size indoor pitch.

Remarkable drone footage has captured the scale of the work in progress on the new £100 million Leicester City training ground.

Contractors are in full flow on the 185-acre site of the former Park Hill Golf Club site off the A46, between Loughborough and Melton.

Leicester City's owner's, the King Power Group, hope the state-of-the-art facilities will help the club with its ambitions of being a contender in Europe and - City fans would like to think - get it on track for future attempts at the Premier League title.

City are currently fourth in the Premier League.

The training ground – replacing outdated facilities at Belvoir Drive, in Leicester – will have 11 full-size pitches, with eight smaller pitches and outdoor training areas, plus a full-size indoor pitch within a signature central building.

The indoor facilities include 35 bedrooms, a hydrotherapy pool, rehabilitation facilities and dining areas for the club’s academy and first team, as well as administration offices and a media centre.

Next to the main building is a full-size indoor artificial pitch.

The centre will even include a sports turf academy, to train the next generation of groundsmen and women, and a 499-seat mini-venue show pitch, so that the under-23 and under-18 teams can experience a match environment.

The designs have been drawn up by the same architects that planned Tottenham Hotspur’s training ground and Liverpool’s new main stand developments as well as Number One Court at Wimbledon and Twickenham’s East Stand.

The video shows activity on the sprawling construction site with heavy plant machinery and builders hard at work.

Earth movers are reshaping the site which will be carefully landscaped by the time the training ground is complete.

The club says it hopes that will be ready in nine month’s time, for the start of the 2020/21 season.

Club chief executive Susan Whelan previously said: “The new training ground will elevate the Club and our training facilities to another level for generations to come, so it’s fantastic  to have our contractors from McLaren on-site, commencing work and  turning our vision into reality.

“Such a big investment is both a fantastic opportunity and a big responsibility for everyone involved in the project. We’re delighted to be shaping a big part of the Club’s future together and determined to make it something the region can be exceptionally proud of.”

Leicester City chief executive Susan Whelan previously said: “The new training ground will elevate the Club and our training facilities to another level for generations to come, so it’s fantastic  to have our contractors from McLaren on-site, commencing work and  turning our vision into reality.

“Such a big investment is both a fantastic opportunity and a big responsibility for everyone involved in the project. We’re delighted to be shaping a big part of the Club’s future together and determined to make it something the region can be exceptionally proud of.”

The club has not yet said what it plans to with with its existing Belvoir Drive traing ground when the new complex is ready.

See the footage here:- 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/drone-footage-shows-progress-leicester-3412746

Written by Tom Pegden - Leicester Mercury