Work is under way to enable Truro City to compete in the National League South play offs, should the club finish the season in second to fifth place in the league. This work, which entails the construction of a 250 seat covered stand, will be completed by the National League’s March 31st deadline.

Truro City will play at Treyew Road next season

The club is also pleased to announce that Truro City will be playing football at Treyew Road next season.

Until very recently, it appeared that the club would be forced to leave its Truro home at the end of this season. With construction of the new stadium at Silver Bow delayed by planning issues, a contingency plan was put in place to ground share with Torquay United for the 2016-17 season.

Staying in Cornwall next season was always the preferred option but the club had to be realistic and accept that this looked to be unachievable. However, after a lot of hard bargaining with a number of parties, a compromise has been reached which will allow the club to remain at Treyew Road until Silver Bow is completed.

The club would like to extend its thanks to Torquay United for the offer to share it’s facilities with Truro City and to wish them all the best at a time when they too are in a period of transition.

Silver Bow

Work on Silver Bow is scheduled to start in October 2016, with an anticipated eight-month build. Detailed planning work on the new stadium is under way and the outline design will be available in the next few months. Supporters will be invited to comment on the plans and make suggestions at that point.

On the pitch: Looking ahead

Let’s not forget that these are exciting times for Truro City on the pitch as well. By the middle of May, we will know which league the club will be playing in next season and at that point our attention will turn to the resources required for next year. Decisions will, of course, only be made after intensive discussions with the management and coaching staff who have done so much to get the team to where they are now.

In terms of infrastructure, should the club achieve promotion to the National League at the end of this season, consideration will be given to the construction of further covered stands at Treyew Road.

Taking stock

The club is aware that there has been a lot of uncertainty in recent months. However, it’s a fact of commercial life that many of the negotiations that have taken place about Truro City’s future have had to be kept confidential and so it has not always been possible to keep supporters informed to the extent we would have wished.

However, throughout the process the club has been in consultation with Ron Ratchford and the Truro City Supporters Club to ensure that the interests of the club’s fans were taken into account.

Supporters with a commercial background will appreciate the complexity of the process in which the club has been involved over the last couple of years. They will also understand the need to make provision for all eventualities, including the club being evicted from Treyew Road.

As a reminder, the ground at Treyew Road was sold by the previous owners of the club. So when the current owners rescued Truro City, it had huge debts, no ground, was facing relegation and looked to be heading for the same sad fate that has befallen so many other non-league clubs – bankruptcy and extinction.

So to go from a position less than four years ago of not owning a ground of any description to being able to look forward to kicking off the 2017-18 season in a brand new Grade A stadium is an enormous achievement. It puts the club, already playing at the highest level of any in the history of Cornish football, in the position to compete at the top level of non-league football and beyond.