Bowlers switch sites


Bowls Warkworth is shifting its focus for new clubrooms from Shoesmith Domain to Campbell Reserve, at the top of Glenmore Drive.

The club has been looking for a new site for several years and put forward its plans for an ambitious $7.5million world-class facility on public land at the bottom of Shoesmith Domain late last year.

The project would be funded by the sale of its Mill Lane property. Last week, the club updated the Rodney Local Board on its plans.

Club secretary Mike Newland said that the two-hectare Campbell Reserve was suggested to the club by Auckland Council.

The larger site will allow for three greens, rather than the two proposed at Shoesmith. “But otherwise, the plans are pretty much the same,” he said.

The club is meeting Council staff early next month to further the project.