A PLAN to build a new all-weather sports pitch in the city will be discussed by councillors.

Worcester City Council is continuing to look at building new football facilities at the city’s Perdiswell Leisure Centre including an all-weather pitch.

Reports earlier this week had suggested the council’s relating project to build an indoor futsal facility could be scrapped in favour of building more five-a-side pitches.

The council has said that building a new all-weather pitch in the city would be dependent on funding from the Football Foundation - the charity responsible for channelling government, FA and Premier League money into grass roots football.

If the charity agreed to give the council the money to fund the all-weather pitch, any profit would have to be used for future maintenance or reinvested.

The council carried out a study at the end of 2019 looking at whether it would be possible to open the new facilities next to the city leisure centre off Bilford Road but the costs used in the report were out-of-date and needed reviewing.

The council agreed to fund a £25,000 study in 2018 to look into installing an all-weather sports pitch and futsal pitches at Perdiswell which should have been published and discussed by councillors in late 2019 but was put on the backburner ‘as the shift focused to other projects.’

At the end of last year, the city council revealed it would be paying up to £10,000 to revisit and update its now two-year-old study.

A tailor-made document for Worcester from the Football Foundation has shown a need for five full-size 3G football pitches, 28 improved grass pitches, two new changing room, pavilion or clubhouse facilities and six small-sided pitches – which includes five, six or seven-a-side pitches.

Worcester City has since moved into new facilities at Claines Lane and state-of-the-art all-weather hockey pitches are nearly built on land off Droitwich Road.

Top of the list for potential improvements that could receive FA or government funding in the future, and the main priority for the city, would be the new full-size floodlit pitch and indoor futsal facility at council owned ‘key site’ Perdiswell, the document said.

The council’s income generation subcommittee meets in the Guildhall from 7pm on March 9.