The planned tennis hall of the Old Boys Tennis Club is a little further. It was narrowly accepted by the Building and Spatial Planning Commission of the Grand Council.
The most important thing in brief
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A new tennis hall is to be built at the Basel Schützenmatte.
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The project receives support from the BRK of the Grand Council.
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This recommends that the cantonal parliament adopt the development plan.
In Basel, the planned tennis hall on the Schützenmatt area has overcome an important hurdle. The Building and Spatial Planning Commission (BRK) of the Grand Council has recommended that the cantonal parliament adopt the development plan.
The result was extremely close. The decision was made with seven yes votes, five no votes and one abstention, as the “bz Basel” reports.
Non-members can rent spaces
But: The development plan comes with a condition that the developer – the Old Boys Tennis Club (TCOB) – probably did not want: The club must open the facility, which is supposed to offer four indoor courts, to non-members.
This condition was justified, among other things, by the fact that the new hall should be built on a “lawn used for polysports”. Without this requirement, zone conformity according to the BRK would not have been sufficiently guaranteed, the report states.
However, some members of the BRK considered the proposal to be too far-reaching. They submitted a counter-motion that stipulated that the TCOB would only have to make two of the four new indoor spaces available to non-members. However, this counterproposal was rejected.
Despite some resistance, the BRK fundamentally supports the project and describes the resized project as compatible with the district. It also recommends that the still pending objections to the project be rejected.
The TCOB has wanted to start construction for a long time. The project received prominent support from Roger Federer, who played at the club in his youth and promised contributions – hence the nickname “Roger-Federer-Halle”.
The new hall is ecologically better than the previous solution. At the beginning of the winter half of the year, the TCOB is currently building a balloon hall that will be heated with fossil fuels.
In contrast, the planned hall will be heated with air-heat water pumps and supplied with electricity by a photovoltaic system. According to the construction plans, the facade is made of wood and the roof will also be covered in greenery.
