February 2014

The Project to improve the pitches and changing facilities at the Alexandra Park Club to enable use by Heartlands High students ran into a host of delays, largely due to poor planning by the Building Schools for the Future team.

Eventually because of the delays, the school made arrangements to use other playing fields. However the Club was able to access alternative funding from the Council and complete most of the Phase 1 work. Drainage was installed under the cricket pitches and one football pitch, a water storage tank was installed underground for irrigation, and a connection to the main sewer was installed to eliminate of a septic tank.

Phase 2 of the original project, which comprised construction of a Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA) is not being pursued at the moment.

The new secondary school, Heartlands High School, which has been built alongside the railway near Alexandra Palace Station, does not have any playing fields.