Stadium to be pulled down
The demolition of Cannock Stadium is a step closer today after a tender was accepted for work costing about £100,000.
It will involve pulling down the main stadium building and concrete terracing, together with removal of the floodlights, track and associated hard surfaces.
The name of the successful company is not being revealed at this stage by Cannock Chase Council.
The tender is now proceeding to the contract stage and the contractor who will be carrying out the work is currently preparing a health and safety and method statement. These need to be agreed by both the council and Severn Trent Water prior to work starting on the site, off Pye Green Road
This is due to the presence of sewers beneath the structures to be demolished.
The council decided to close the athletics stadium in the summer of last year.
Plans to demolish all the stadium buildings were put on hold after there were claims that bats, a protected species, had made their home there.
Experts were drafted in and found that a single pipistrelle bat was roosting infrequently in the old clubhouse.
The clubhouse has been in a state of disrepair since 2005 when it was handed back to the council by Cannock and Stafford Athletics Club who had held it on a lease.
The building is approximately 70 metres from the main stadium and due to the discovery of the bat it cannot now be demolished.
The council could still apply for a licence to demolish the building and move the bat.
