Truro City Football Club (TCFC) has announced plans for a new stadium to the west of the city.
Helical Retail, the club’s development partner, has acquired an option from Wycliffe Estates to purchase a site known as Silver Bow, at Threemilestone, for the club’s relocation.
The site is directly opposite the entrance to the proposed Langarth Development, which has planning consent for 1,500 houses.
Helical Retail expects to submit a planning application for a football ground and related uses in the next few months.
No details on the stadium’s size or design have been released, but Peter Masters, chair of TCFC said the venue would also host a the club’s new academy – a first for Cornwall.
“The acquisition and development of the Silver Bow site will create long term certainty for the club to implement its plans,” Masters said.
“We can now put the uncertainties of the past few years behind us and focus on our plans to build a new Stadium for TCFC to Conference level standard while incorporating a much-needed youth academy to channel young footballers throughout Cornwall into playing at the highest level.”
Philip King, development manager for Helical Retail, added: “This is an ideal location for TCFC’s relocation. It is close to the Park and Ride and a number of bus routes and will offer the club a springboard to develop their facilities in the years to come.”
TCFC currently plays its home games at the 3,000-capacity Treyew Road ground
• It is unclear what impact the announcement will have on the
long-running Stadium for Cornwall project, headed by Inox Group and Henry Boot Developments (HBD).
In August 2014, Inox and HBD submitted a separate planning application for a supermarket and housing complex, aimed at raising the money to build a 10,000-capacity stadium at Langarth.
