Ain: a new sports plain by 2024 for Valserhône

This project, the mayor of Valserhone Régis Petit has had it in mind since 2005. The sports plain of Arlod will finally come out of the ground to revitalize the sporting activities of the city. An ambitious project whose work should be completed in spring 2024.

Car the path took a long time to be able to build it. “We had to acquire a former industrial wasteland”explains the mayor of Valserhône. “This sports plain will be located in place of the Bellegardian electrometallurgy and we started work last spring”.

20 million euros including 5 million financed by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region

This sports plain will have an area of 20 hectares with two rugby pitches including one with grandstands with a capacity of 1.600 places, four outdoor tennis courts et a room of 120 spectators which will host tennis, table tennis, archery and padel (a sport derived from tennis which is played between 4 walls and a net).

“We have a 70-year-old rugby stadium which is obsolete”Explain Regis Petit. “These facilities for our sports clubs, in particular tennis and rugby, on the new plain will change their associative model. They will be very modern and versatile tools with festive and recreational spaces. We will provide the tennis club with ‘an attractiveness on the scale of the territory and therefore we have good hope of being able to support our historic clubs such as rugby and tennis towards an associative model which will be innovative”.

The work will cost 20 million euros. A project to be funded by the state but also the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region to the height of 5 million euros. “It was by demonstrating that we created equipment that nourished the attractiveness of a territory but whose character as emblematic equipment at the regional level resonated with what the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region expects. “justifies Régis Petit, the mayor of Valserhône.

“We are going to build a tennis base which we hope will be labeled by the French Tennis Federation and our rugby stadiums will be intended to host finals at the federal level. I am convinced that if we had not been ambitious, we would not have been supported in this way by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region”.

This sports plain will benefit each week to more than 2,500 students different school groups in addition to 1,500 licensees relevant sports activities.