Argyle, the Argyle Community Trust, Plymouth City Council, Plymouth Albion RFC and Devonport Community Leisure Ltd (DCLL) struck a deal which will see £21m invested in rejuvenating the under-utilised Brickfields site in Devonport, with a focus on community health, wellbeing, and raising aspirations. 

As part of the plans, Argyle will provide an eight-figure investment towards the project, which will see wholesale redevelopment of Brickfields to install superb facilities for our ambitious youth academy, including a covered pitch and other amenities which are of the standard required to apply for Category 2 status in the future. 

The proposals to redevelop the Brickfields site were granted permission by Plymouth City Council in early 2024. As part of the plans, we are delivering:  

• An improved set of playing pitches including three grass football pitches  
• A new rugby/football artificial pitch for the use of the community and Plymouth Albion RFC on the site of the existing grass rugby training pitch  
• A new purpose-built Academy building, including classrooms, office space for Academy staff, changing rooms, a gym, and a parents’ lounge   
• A permanent home for Plymouth Argyle Women  
• A new floodlit 3G football pitch to replace a poor condition (currently closed) hockey pitch 
• A new, covered 3G football pitch  
• Refurbishment of the existing 60m x 40m rubber crumb pitch and creation of a 30 x 20m ‘Play Zone’, exclusively for community use through Argyle Community Trust  
• Improvements to landscaping and planting, site access, public areas and parking  

This project is not just about finding a home for our Academy, though. The partnership with Plymouth City Council, Plymouth Albion RFC, DCLL and other grass-roots sports clubs will see Argyle further its community status with the development of a new community hub on the site, operated by Argyle Community Trust.