Falkland Activity Centre

Current and Proposed Layout and Use of Lower Scroggie

Lower Scroggie is currently an agricultural field. It has been ploughed recently and a crop of barley is being planted for September harvesting. It has a reasonably steep and consistent slope from south to north. The only access at the moment is from the larger field to the east which has an entrance from the A912 to the north and another at its south-west corner nearest Scroggie Park. Lower Scroggie is the only one of the three areas capable of holding a full-size cricket pitch.

The full proposal for the development of Lower Scroggie is shown below:

Timescale	Details of Work
May 2014	Agree project parameters, perform site surveys and submit planning and funding applications
August 2014	Subject to above being successful, create new entrance to Lower Scroggie in south-west corner
Early September 2014	Position Falkland Activity Centre as shown in black
Late September 2014	Harvest barley from remaining 95%+
October 2014	Perform groundworks to (partly) level proposed playing area and prepare ‘road’ and parking to the north of the new structure
November 2014	Work can start on parts of the Falkland Activity Centre as resources become available – particularly the external changing rooms
Spring 2015	Plant grass seed over all remaining area of Lower Scroggie
Summer 2015	Start maintaining Lower Scroggie outfield areas and start developing square of grass wickets shown in yellow above
Summer 2015	All Falkland cricket teams continue to play on 2014 season playing areas, but 3^rd XI change in new Activity Centre
September 2015	Vacate School Playing Field
October 2015	Install single artificial wicket on Lower Scroggie as shown in ‘artificial’ green above
April 2016	Falkland 3^rd XI and Sunday XI start playing on Lower Scroggie in the smaller playing area shown
Summer 2016	1^st & 2^nd XIs continue to play on Scroggie and change in existing clubhouse, but visiting teams can use two changing rooms
September 2016	Work on fitting out Falkland Activity Centre is completed
Summer 2017	Grass wickets on Lower Scroggie become playable and 1^st & 2^nd XIs move there with 3^rd XI and Sunday team switching to Scroggie

There is a fair amount of flexibility built into this plan. The timescales given above are for illustrative purposes only. They can be accelerated if all the necessary resources become available earlier. The one aspect which cannot change is the early September 2014 delivery of the prefabricated structure. If it doesn’t happen then it will not happen at all.

To see the final piece of the jigsaw – what will all this development mean to Scroggie Park – click on the last page link below.

Existing Building	Proposed Structure	Playing Areas
Current Location	Existing Layout	School Playing Field
External Views	Proposed Layout	Lower Scroggie
Internal Views		Scroggie Park

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