We are pleased to confirm that the club has secured the continued use of Udney Park Road as a training facility for the coming season and potentially for the longer term.

The Udney Park Road playing fields are at the heart of the town that the club has represented for over 50 years and securing a portion of the site will give the club much welcome stability for mid-week training and occasional weekend use.

As many will know, the site has been subject to a planning application process for the last few years and although the site owners Quantum/AAH were refused planning permission to build on a proportion of the fields, in addition to developing new community playing facilities and a GP Surgery, the club has been able to secure access to a dedicated area on the site to the south end, adjacent to the tennis courts, a slightly different location to previous years.

The decision means the club's junior, women's and men's teams now have a dedicated space to train for the coming season.

Unfortunately, in recent months, with the fields lying idle, there has been a degree of vandalism and the site is in poor condition. As part of its arrangement with Quantum, the club will pay for new boundary fencing and secure gates to be installed and will be responsible for the general upkeep of the site.

So in addition to the site being made secure, the club will focus on tidying up litter, cutting the grass and generally taking responsibility for maintaining the site, in anticipation of wider use on other areas, a process that will be managed exclusively by Quantum/AHH.

Via coaches and managers, timings for various teams’ use of the defined playing area will be confirmed in the days ahead, including information on arrival and changing facilities.

Although it will take some time for some of the work to be complete, we are delighted to be able to move forward with a confirmed space within the Teddington community for Teddington RFC for the foreseeable future.

Teddington RFC Chairman Simon Davis said:

“This is fantastic news for the club. To secure a facility in the centre of Teddington is very important to us. It means we can provide a single local training venue for all our teams and we can continue to grow our rugby club. We’ll be doing all we can to bring the site back to its former state and hopefully it will continue to be an asset for the local community for many years to come.”