TRURO-THREE RIVERS

I wrote about York City recently and the club's issues with their Stadium. All seems to be calm at the moment. At the other end of the country, Southern Premier League, Truro City, is also having ground development problems. With the various disturbances to the season, Truro are fourth in their division, which takes them on journeys to Hendon, Chesham and Swindon. The club's greatest achievement was in 2007 when they beat AFC Totton 3-1 in the FA Vase Final at Wembley, with a crowd of over 36,000.

Truro City, known as the White Tigers, played their home games at Treyew Road, Truro, (see below) a ground that has been their home since the mid-1900s. A  council road widening scheme resulted in their covered stand behind a goal being removed. In recent years the club has added to their old stand and erected two new stands on opposite sides of the ground lifting the capacity to approximately 3,000.

In 2005 the club planned to build a new 16,000-seater stadium in Truro as a new home for the city's football club. However, the £12m plans were opposed by some residents who live near the proposed site at Treyew Road.  In 2006, the club revealed plans for a £7m football training complex. The club wanted to build two new pitches and a club house on land in Kenwyn, Truro with a 60-bed hotel and offices at its present Treyew Road base. However, in 2007, Carrick District Council rejected the plans for the new 16,000-seater stadium. In 2011 the Council started developing a business plan for the proposed Stadium for Cornwall, which would host both Truro City and the Cornish Pirates rugby union team.

In 2014, the club sold Treyew Road for redevelopment, with the intention of using the money as their share of the development costs for the planned new stadium. The club received three extensions allowing them to stay at the ground following its sale, but in the summer of 2018, the development company announced its plans to begin work on the project immediately, forcing Truro City to find a temporary location. Eventually, the club came to an agreement with South-west rivals Torquay United, to groundshare their Plainmoor stadium, a ground that was 2 hours away from Truro. 

In October 2018 it was revealed that the deal with Helical Retail, who were going to redevelop the Treyew Road site into a supermarket, was off. In January 2019, Truro returned to Treyew Road, but insisted that they still planned to share the proposed Stadium of Cornwall with rugby union club Cornish Pirates and provide facilities for the local, Penwith College. 

In January 2021 it was announced that the club will finally leave their Treyew Road ground and groundshare with Plymouth Parkway FC at Bolitho Park, in town, until 2022, when the Stadium for Cornwall is scheduled to be finished at Langarth, where a Garden Village is planned with around 2,700 homes. Bolitho Park has to be upgraded. Parkway play two levels below City in the Western Premier League.

The whole development should bring much investment to the City and its region.

P.s. Truro-comes from three rivers (tri-veru) probably the Kenwyn, Allen,Truro River,  leading to the Fal.