Major Funding Boost for Truro as Boscawen Sport and Recreation Hub Receives First Grant Payment

Truro City Council has announced a significant step forward for sports and leisure in the city with the first grant payment from the Truro Town Deal for the Boscawen Sport and Recreation Hub.

The project, aimed at enhancing the amenities at Boscawen Park for both residents and visitors, has received an initial £464,251 out of a total of £5.2 million allocated by the Truro Towns Fund.

Truro Mayor Carol Swain expressed excitement about the project, highlighting Boscawen Park’s popularity and the council’s commitment to improving the park’s indoor and outdoor facilities. The development plans include:

• The new Boscawen Park Sports Hub building
• An all-weather 3-G sports pitch
• Works to stabilise the river bank
• Improvements to the duck pond, including dredging.
• Landscaping works

The hub is not only set to cater to sports activities but also aims to serve as a versatile community space. Planned activities and groups to be hosted at the hub include parent and toddler groups, book, film, and drama clubs, coffee mornings, senior centre activities, workshops and training, arts and crafts, and various conferences and events.

Further project details underscore the vision of revitalising Boscawen Park as a ‘Green’ hub focusing on health and well-being, accessible to all ages and abilities. This vision extends to:

• Revitalising the park as a ‘Green’ hub for sports activities, with a focus on health and wellbeing for people of all ages and abilities.
• Improving the sports facilities including a new all-weather playing pitch and sports hub.
• Conserving the historic parkland landscape and character, celebrating Truro’s horticultural heritage.
• Emphasising the parks green and natural setting by improving access to the riverside pathways, with views to Truro.
• Revitalising those areas within the park which have been neglected and also address issues of drainage and access.
• Improving the existing performance space, serving as multifunctional space for informal outdoor activity.
• Enhancing the existing play space with more green and natural play.
• Improving sustainable transport connections to the park and promote cycling and walking.
• Promoting links to the wider area within footpaths and cycleways and the Lighterage Quay Bridge connectivity to Newham and its business community

The new sports hub building will be erected on land formerly occupied by the City Council’s parks department nursery on Malpas Road, which has been relocated to Idless.

This project is part of a broader effort by the Truro City Council, including the “New Life for City Buildings” project launched earlier this year, to enhance Truro’s community infrastructure and recreational facilities.

For more information on the Boscawen Sport and Recreation Hub and other city projects, visit the Truro City Council and Truro Town Deal websites.