• UCE Academy

    UCE Academy 3G & Tarmac MUGA

    Blakedown Sport & Play have completed extensive sport facility work at the Brand new UCE Academy in Wirral.

    A new full size 3G for football & 5-a-side was constructed onto a dynamic base using and Edel Superblade Duo 60mm monofilament carpet.

    4m High weldmesh fencing and 6 floodlight columns completed the ATP.

    A four court tarmac Multi-Use Games Area for tennis & Netball was built plus a polymeric long jump straight.

    Numerous items of sporting apparatus were also supplied from weighted football & 5-a-side goals to pitch dividing nets & netball posts.

    Once completed the pitch was used to break a Guinness World record for the largest man made poppy, formed with nearly 2000 students and teachers from the Academy.

    Client: Kier Northern
    Contract Duration: 12 Weeks
    Contract Value: £390’000

  • Ryelands Estate, Lancaster

    Ryelands Estate, Lancaster Variety of landscaping and sports facilities

    The construction of a wide variety of sports facilities and landscaping at Ryelands Estate.

    Works included:

    • Installation of a 30m x 18m porous macadam multi-use games area for five-a-side football and basketball, with a 3m-high perimeter weldmesh fence and 1.2m rebound boards.
    • A skatepark, including two 9m-diameter concrete bowls with grind rails.
    • A junior play area with a pre-formed, safety-tiled surface with play equipment such as swings, a spring ride, spring seesaw, whirl and fun trial.
    • A vast amount of landscaping and planting of shrubs plus tarmac footpaths,. The whole site was enclosed with 1.2m bowtop perimeter fencing.

    Client: Lancaster City Council, Town Hall, Lancaster LA1 1PJ
    Architect: Capita Symonds, 1 Mannin Way, Lancaster LA1 3SU
    Contract value: £255,000
    Contract duration: 13 weeks