The University of Liverpool is hoping to install a new rugby pitch on a historic sports ground despite it being “not a huge sport on Merseyside.”
An application has been made to Liverpool Council by the higher education facility to install an artificial grass rugby pitch at the Wyncote Sports Ground on Mather Avenue. According to a design and access statement submitted to the local authority, the university has reviewed its resources and requirements for tournament play and “have identified this area of the site as ideal for a new pitch.”
The report said: “The grounds were donated to the University of Liverpool, for the recreational use of students in 1918 in memory of Geoffrey Hughes. The site contains multiple sport pitches and training facilities, with the grade II listed Sport Pavilion in the centre of the site, and the cricket pavilion to the Northeast, close to the proposed rugby pitch.
