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Saturday, January 30, 2016

Worcester Looking For New Sites For Ground


Worcester City held their first AGM for five years on Thursday to find out the club had just under £650,000 left in their pot from the sale of St Georges Lane after handing £600,000 to developer St Modwen to end their deal on building a new ground on the original Nunnery Way site.

Shareholders were told the club needed to cover a projected loss of £60,000 this season as they continue to groundshare at Kidderminster. However that groundshare is now in doubt with the cash-strapped Harriers looking to more than double the current £21,000 a season rent. A move to Bromsgrove is understood to be under discussion after being ruled out earlier in the month, however their stadium would need additional works to make it acceptable for National North level.

The biggest news to come out of the AGM was that the long worked on Perdiswell site had been ruled out by Worcestershire Council as the location for their proposed new ground, meaning a potential return to the city could still be years away.

The Council have told club chiefs that the Leisure Centre site, now the subject of partial redevelopment work beginning recently with a £10.5million swimming pool, is not suitable for a 4,419 capacity stadium. The Council is to offer alternative sites for the ground with the club having spent more than three years working on plans for the area.

The National North side left St Georges Lane in 2013 having signed contracts to sell the site in 2008.