With the new Premiership season just around the corner, the Club has submitted three planning applications to the local Council, which is approved would mean that the club would gain a pavilion providing the club with replacement training facilities, sports therapy, changing facilities and a players’ lounge. Cherries also hope to create an additional training pitch, taking the total to three at Kings Park.
On the proposals, manager Eddie Howe is quoted in the Bournemouth Evening Echo as saying: "In my opinion, having privacy at the training ground is absolutely critical. It would be pivotal to our success next season and that is how much importance I would place on it. We need to be able to work in private. We need to be able to prepare properly and professionally for games and you can only do that without people from the outside having an opportunity to look in. It is crucial for team selection and tactical information. These things have to be done in private to give us any chance of being successful when we are competing against other clubs in the Premier League. These things simply cannot be carried out in the public domain because it would give our opponents a huge advantage. I can’t stress enough how critical it would be for us going forward. We need the facilities to be able to work and improve players. We are asking the people of Bournemouth and the council to try to back us on this. Hopefully, the town and the council will see the importance of Premier League football coming to Bournemouth. The revenue generated in the town will serve everyone well and this is going to be needed to give us a chance of staying in the Premier League".
“We think we can really put Bournemouth on the map next season and, hopefully, the long-term benefits will be huge