calfordseaden was appointed by Roots Hall Limited to provide Employer’s Agent and Quantity Surveying services for the design and construction of four training pitches, water attenuation pond, access road and car park at Southend United Football Club.

This included four senior sized pitches resulting in an overall pitch area of approximately 33,000m2. These were designed and constructed to meet the needs of Elite and Academy players.

Our appointment included addressing extensive earthworks remodeling to create two plateaux, each containing two pitches of acceptable gradient.

All of the pitches benefit from the inclusion of an appropriate sports field drainage system designed to meet the performance requirements stipulated by The Football Association and Sport England. So as not to increase the risk of flooding on land up or down stream of the site, the rate of drainage discharge was restricted, and excess surface water will be temporarily stored on-site in an attenuation pond until it can be released at a controlled flow rate into the nearby ditch network.

This project was completed in November 2022 to enable Southend United Club to decant from the existing training complex and to unlock the commencement of the wider development.