EXCITING plans to provide new and improved indoor and outdoor sports and leisure facilities in Truro’s Boscawen Park will reach a key milestone next month, when work officially begins on constructing the new Sports Hub building and improving the sports pitches.

A drop-in information day will be held at the Truro Loops Room in the Tennis Pavilion on Wednesday, July 30 from 1pm to 6pm, to enable the local community to find out more and meet to team members.

Led by Truro City Council and funded by Truro Town Deal, the £5.2-million Sports Hub project will see the construction of a new multi-use building incorporating new changing facilities, as well as flexible indoor spaces suitable for both sports use and activities such as conferences, community and family events, workshops and training, or arts and crafts groups.

The outdoor space will include an extended and improved pétanque pitch and resurfacing of the riverside walk. Improvements will also be made to the existing grass playing surfaces that will enable all the pitches to be used for longer periods of the year.

Work is due to start during the week beginning August 4. Fencing will be erected around the site of the new building and the sports pitches while work takes place.

Pitches will be closed to all users while improvement works are carried out, and to enable the new grass surface to be established afterwards. Competitive sports are expected to resume on the playing surfaces in April 2026.

Plans are also being developed to dredge the duck pond at Malpas, with work due to begin as soon as possible.

The children’s play area, formal gardens, tennis courts and café will remain open to the public throughout the construction period. The existing boules/pétanque pitch will also remain open for the majority of the building work.

Truro mayor Cllr Chris Wells said: “We recognise there will inevitably be some disruption during the works and apologise for any inconvenience to users of the park, visitors and the wider local community. During the past few months, we have worked with users to help them find alternative sites while the pitches are being improved, and will continue to work closely with the contractor and our partners, including Truro Town Deal Board and Cornwall Council, to keep disruption to a minimum.

“Once completed, the sports hub and improved pitches will be important community assets and I am looking forward to seeing them in use next spring.”

Truro Town Deal chairman Alan Stanhope said: “Boscawen Sports Hub is a key part of our wider ambition to create a healthier, more connected and more vibrant place to live. We know how much this new facility will mean to local clubs, families, and community groups, and we’re proud to be helping to make it happen.”

Truro was awarded £23.6-million from the Government’s £3.6-billion Towns Fund in 2021. It is one of four town deal projects taking place in Cornwall, the others being Camborne, Penzance and St Ives.