Warrington Borough Council has given planning permission for the Orford Park Project, a £30m community sports hub on a 50 acres former landfill site.

The development is scheduled to open in November 2011 and include community, health and education facilities. These facilities are due to include swimming pools, a sports hall, a health and fitness suite, football pitches, a library and a health centre.

The council said construction was set to start on the scheme early this year.

Capita Symonds’ Leisure and Project Management division is set to manage the project, which has attracted funding from the Northwest Regional Development Agency; Sport England North West Region; the Football Foundation; the Big Lottery Fund; and with support from the Department for Children, Schools and Families through the Building Schools for the Future programme.

Ian Marks, leader of Warrington Borough Council, said the scheme would regenerate a key site in the town and “enable Warrington to play a major role in providing a long-term 2012 Olympic legacy in the north west”.

Andy Farrall, executive director of environment and regeneration at the council, who is heading the Orford Park Project, said: “The council and its partners will now move quickly to begin construction of this imaginative and nationally important project. It is key to the regeneration of the community and in the development of sport and healthy lifestyles in the borough.”

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