National Performance Centre Announced

[glasgow sheep]

http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish_fa_news.cfm?page=1961&newsCategoryID=3&newsID=12480

 

Edinburgh to host National Performance Centre for SportThursday, 12 September 2013

The National Performance Centre for Sport (NPCS), a new facility to help Scotland’s elite athletes excel on the world stage, will be located at the Riccarton Campus of Heriot Watt University.

 

Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has accepted the unanimous recommendation from the NPCS Steering Group.

 

The £30 million multi-sport centre will offer world class training facilities for individual athletes and squads, high performance coaching and cutting edge sports medicine.

 

The NPCS will support the high performance needs for football, rugby and volleyball while offering additional dedicated support to athletics, badminton, basketball, cricket, fencing, handball, hockey, netball, shinty and squash. The site at Riccarton also offers an excellent opportunity for future expansion. It will be operational by 2016.

 

Nicola Sturgeon said:

 

“The National Performance Centre for Sport will be the jewel in the crown for Scottish sport and help turn dreams into reality. It will be the best place for our elite athletes to mentally and physically prepare to compete on the world stage, helping more Scots win, more often.

 

“The Heriot Watt and City of Edinburgh Council team presented an inspiring vision which clearly demonstrated a positive commitment to developing high performance and a strong focus on partnership. I am confident they will deliver an iconic project, in a great setting, that takes Scottish sport onto a new level.

 

“Our vision for sport builds on the tremendous expertise at the sportscotland institute of sport and complements the increasing number of world-class facilities across Scotland where elite athletes are training, such as the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, the refurbished Royal Commonwealth Pool, the Aberdeen Sports Arena and the Tollcross Aquatics Centre.”

Scottish FA Chief Executive, Stewart Regan, is the chair of the NPCS Steering Group. He said:

"The new NPCS will be the crown jewel of our own performance strategy, which kicked-off in earnest in August 2012 when the first pupils entered our seven Performance Schools.

"The NPCS will allow us to work closely with other sports and share best practice to further develop our very best players. The environment, and world-class facilities, will be truly aspirational for our young players, and athletes from all over Scotland."

 

Stewart Harris, Chief Executive of sportscotland, said:

 

“Today is a very significant day for sport in Scotland as the National Performance Centre for Sport is a tremendous addition to Scotland’s sporting facilities.

 

“This new multi-sport performance centre will complement the terrific facilities we already have in Scotland, and assist our high performance athletes in honing their skills and delivering on the world stage.”

 

The NPCS will be backed by £25 million from the Scottish Government and £2.5 million from each of Heriot-Watt University and the City of Edinburgh Council. It is expected that construction will start in spring 2014 with the Centre completed and operation in January 2016.

 

The Centre will offer an indoor full sized 3G football pitch with seating for 500, a full sized Hampden grass pitch with seating for 500, a synthetic 3G pitch, two goalkeeper training areas with floodlights, two grass rugby pitches, five grass football pitches, three outdoor tennis courts, a nine court sports hall, a 100 station fitness suite, hydrotherapy, strength and conditioning and treatment areas, office accommodation for governing bodies and will also incorporate the existing facilities at the University’s Centre for Sport and Exercise.

 

Stage 1 bidding closed in February 2013 and six applications were received. An assessment of each bid was carried out by the NPCS Steering Group supported by sportscotland. Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon approved the recommendation of the Steering Group to invite three of the bids to work up more detailed stage 2 proposals. Those were: Dundee City Council; Heriot Watt University supported by the City of Edinburgh Council; and a partnership between the University of Stirling and Stirling Council.

 

Stage two applications were submitted in July and each of the bids was assessed by the sportscotland across the key criteria set out in the bid documentation: Sports Impact and Strategic Need; Technical; Management and Operational; Financial; and Legal and Planning. The Steering Group visited each of the proposed sites on August 1, during which the relevant bid teams outlined their plans. The bidders made final presentations to the Steering Group on August 8. The Steering Group subsequently presented a report and a unanimous recommendation to the Deputy First Minister.

 

The Steering Group members are:

 

- Stewart Regan, Chief Executive, Scottish Football Association (Chair)

- Sheila Begbie MBE, Head of Girls and Women’s Football, Scottish Football Association

- Paul Bush OBE, Chief Operating Officer, EventScotland

- Alistair Gray, Executive Chairman, Winning Scotland Foundation

- Douglas Potter, Chair of the High Performance Group (Hockey) in Scotland

- Stewart Harris, Chief Executive, sportscotland

- Donnie Jack, Deputy Director for Sport & Physical Activity, Scottish Government

[Kowalski]

The Steering Group members are:

 

- Stewart Regan, Chief Executive, Scottish Football Association (Chair)

 

I'm sure it'll be a resounding success then.

[TENEMENTFUNSTER]

Absolute stick on that this was going to Edinburgh.

 

 

 

[glasgow sheep]

Should have been Stirling.

(I base this on no knowledge what so ever)

 

[manc_don]

I was going to ask why GS, but to be honest, stirling uni has great facilities in general and probably quite well connected compared to  most places in the country. This will be a complete failure with the current administration though.

[maverick sheep]

Football should have fuck all to do with the national sport development centre. Clubs need to be made to develop facilities for their own, and the national good. Central funding should be for the other sports that aren't awash with money, as football is (not compared with other countries, but relative to any other sport or most industries.

[rocket_scientist]

The steering group are made up of exclusively quango public sector mentality types.

 

 

Nae real people. People who have achieved fuck all in the real world. People who are only living because they can suck cock, play the game and talk and think in cliches, worming their way further from the gutter where they would inevitably be if there was no public sector.

 

 

Scrap that. They wouldn't even be in the gutter. They would have been long deid, expired pieces of nothingness.

 

 

Whatever the fuck they come up with, we should do the complete opposite. What's with a national fuck all? It might serve some who live within close proximity to get there. What about BASIC facilities for sport in every town and city?

 

 

Whenever they put national and performance in the same breath, they're creating jobs for the boys and grils who, like them, are useless fucking cunts who also should have expired and not contaminated the gene pool.

 

 

I must learn to sit on the fence like they do. For all I know, public sector types post on here.

 

[bloo_toon_red]

What about BASIC facilities for sport in every town and city?

 

Community sports hubs have been in progress for a couple of years now and some of the facilities in the up and coming developments are quite impressive.  I've been working on one very recently.  It's going to take a while for every single town to have them, but that is the ambition.

 

http://www.sportscotland.org.uk/content/sportscotland/Documents/Club_resources/CSH/CSH_Website_Information_-_May2013.pdf