SALTEX: CLS unveils landmark sports projects
Sports contracting, landscaping and installation specialists CLS Sports display some of the landmark work they have completed across the local authority, schools and football sectors nationwide in the year since their SALTEX debut.
As the company’s 50th anniversary in 2018 draws closer, CLS Sports celebrates the recent unveiling of Barnhurst Lane, West Midlands – a project, hailed nationally, that saw CLS’s three divisions unite to transform a former waste treatment site into a 10-hectare expanse of community football pitches and environmental measures.
Bringing into play much of the Campey machinery run by CLS Selfdrive, the project involved moving some 60,000m3 of earth as CLS Landscaping and Earthworks recontoured the site and laid drainage to prepare the ground for nine football pitches prepared by CLS Sports.
A longstanding user of Campey machinery, CLS Selfdrive itself became a dedicated distributor in June, serving north, east and west Yorkshire with the full spread of Imants, Dakota, Raycam and Air-2G2 lines.
Oundle School, near Peterborough, proved another groundbreaking scheme for CLS Sports, spanning synthetic and natural turf provision at one of Britain’s top 100 independent schools. Two further hockey pitches, natural rugby pitch and 20-lane leading edge practice nets further boosted the school’s already expansive facilities.
In Yorkshire, CLS Sports brought the Woodhouse Grove School training ground of Bradford City AFC back to life after severe flooding inundated the site last Boxing Day, restoring its FIFA2* and World Rugby specifications.
Meanwhile, grassroots football in the North-east advanced with the construction of a 3G synthetic pitch and drainage improvements to the match pitch at South Shields FC, work funded through the Grounds & Natural Turf Improvement Programme.
Working closely with the club and FA and IOG regional advisors, CLS Sports have helped transform the fortunes of South Shields FC into a thriving community sports hub and Northern League 1 footballing entity no longer plagued with rained-off fixtures.
The company’s North-west regional hub is helping CLS Sports increasingly influence the national sporting landscape as it deepens its connections with what is a rapidly evolving area of grassroots provision.
The company’s extensive design and build capability received a recent boost with Yarm School’s iconic boathouse being shortlisted for a regional building award.
The structure was honoured for its ultra-modern architecture at the Local Authority Building Control (LABC) awards, which celebrate the ‘creation of excellent buildings’, including outstanding craftsmanship, technical innovation, sustainability and high performance.
The boathouse functions as a training base for rowers and commands stunning views over the river Tees, also doubling as a viewing gallery for rowing events. The boathouse will now go forward to the national LABC awards.
Visit CLS Sports at SALTEX on Stand C115 to learn more about its sportsturf design and build construction projects.
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