Housing group apologise after junior football club without mains power for over TWO YEARS

They have blamed technical issues for the delay



A Coventry junior football club have been left without an electricity supply due to the construction of 61 homes next door to their clubhouse.

As part of the development plans to convert the site of the old Chace Hostel in Willenhall into a number of houses, neighbouring Whitley Juniors Football Club were told they would be without power between April 2016 and September 2017.

Unfortunately, technical issues are still preventing the electricity from being restored, and the clubhouse has now been left without a permanent electricity supply for over two years.

In the meantime, Wates Construction, who are builkding the houses for WM Housing, supplied the football club with a generator, as a short term solution.

But according to club representative Tony Woan, this generator has now broken, plunging the clubhouse into darkness once more.

He said: "Whitefriars (part of the WM housing group) are building on the site of the old Chace Hostel behind Coventry Police Station.

"As part of this, they disconnected our electricity, water and sewerage, and gave us a generator.

"The reconnect was promised last September, but we only got the water back last Christmas. The sewerage works in theory, but needs electricity, and this week, the generator packed it in.

"It feels like they're leading us a merry dance. We can't even run a coffee morning to raise money, because there's no electricity.

"We want to renovate our changing rooms, but that work is on hold because of this."