Tender for Demolition of existing cricket pavilion for replacement cricket pavilion and storage unit at King George V Playing Field, St Peters Road, Huntingdon, PE29 7DA

Huntingdon Town Council are seeking to appoint a suitably skilled and experienced construction contractor to demolish the existing pavilion at KGV playing fields @ St Peters Road, Huntingdon and construct a new cricket and community pavilion and associated landscaping works at King George Fifth Playing Fields in St Peters Rd, Huntingdon.

KGV Field was gifted to the people of Huntingdon in ??

This project has been in development for many years, the existing pavilion was built in the 1960's and is no longer fit for purpose and has been closed pending demolition.

Scope of requirements

The proposed new pavilion building and landscaping works can be summarised as follows:

• The new pavilion will replace the existing vandalised and out of use pavilion building in King George V playing field to serve players, spectators and local community groups.
• The new building will provide the existing Cricket Square with the following facilities:
• Changing rooms for teams and officials
• Café and kitchen/servery
• WC's and showers
• Social area to be used by Cricket club and local community groups.

The new building is formed of a single storey consisting of 2 changing rooms to accommodate home and away players, a kitchen, public social area with indoor viewing of the Cricket square.

External areas to provide unobstructed access into the building, public seating areas, bin storage, cycle, container storage for grounds equipment and car parking. New shrub and tree planting adjacent to the building.

The building is required to be robust and low maintenance as well as presenting an attractive and welcoming arrival point for all users and a positive asset to the community.

The existing damaged pavilion is to be demolished as part of the contract works.

The successful contractor with the responsibility for finalising the design and delivering the new pavilion building and landscaping works, will be expected to co-ordinate and take on the role of Principal Contractor under the CDM Regulations for the various design and works activities contract.

Grant Funding

Additional grant funding will be applied for to cover some packages of work within the contract, such as PV solar panels, CCTV, Kitchen fit out, Fixture and Fitting. If successful the main contractor will be asked to coordinate with the external contractor to incorporate the work within the programme and scope of the project .