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MOSELEY RUGBY CLUB
Billesley Common
Yardley Wood Road
Birmingham B13 0PT
0121 443 3631 www.moseleyrugby.co.uk info@moseleyrugby.co.uk

“Moseley given go-ahead for 5,000 seat stand”

Moseley Rugby Club has been granted planning permission for a 5,000 seat stand and other ground improvements at its Billesley Common ground.

The development will increase the capacity of the ground to 7,500 and the new stand will include 10 changing rooms, 22 hospitality boxes and state of the art meeting and conference facilities.

Birmingham City Council’s planning committee unanimously passed the plans which had been recommended for approval by the council’s planning department.

At the meeting, councillors referred to this project as being necessary to ensure that one of the City’s leading sports institutions was enabled to be at the forefront of its sport.

Moseley Director Alan Adam said: “This is fantastic news not just for the club, but also for the City and its community.

“There is a lot of hard work ahead to complete the development, but once established it will provide a top-rate sporting facility of which the city can be proud, and hopefully a platform for the club to return to the top-rungs of rugby in this country.

“The additional commercial opportunities afforded by the facility will enable the club to be self sustaining with a top level team and provide an expansion of its considerable community activities.”

In the seventies Moseley was among the leading clubs in the country with a host of England and British Lions caps.

Moseley will part fund the development with £1.2 million generated from the sale of its former ground, The Reddings, plus further identified grants for such elements as the changing rooms.

It is expected that more than 100 full and part-time jobs will be created in a ward of high unemployment.    

The club’s highly successful community programme will benefit from the new state of the art facilities and allow further expansion from the current 15,000 Birmingham school children coached every year by the community team.

Local residents and sports clubs will also benefit with upgraded facilities that will strengthen the use of the highly popular 3rd generation rubber crumb All Weather Pitch at the ground that already enjoys over 35,000 individual usages every year.