Ground plans

[TJ Mason]

The latest mailing I received from the NCAS includes a letter and form asking the club to send its ground plans in, so they can be registered properly with the GNAS. It looks like something my predecessor should have done about 3 years ago but didn't.

Does anyone know what format these should be in and what level of detail is acceptable, given that we're not going to spend hundreds on a professional surveyor? I'm hoping it will be OK to do a schematic based on the results from Google maps - would that be acceptable?

And does anyone know what the next steps are after we've sent in the plans?

[worthipa]

Originally Posted by TJ Mason

The latest mailing I received from the NCAS includes a letter and form asking the club to send its ground plans in

I'm not entirely sure what GNAS/NCAS require, but I suspect they just want a record of where clubs shoot. If I'm wrong perhaps someone else will know and I can try again.

In the meantime I suggest you go here:

Land Register Online : Buy Documents

Select "Title Plan" follow it through to "Checkout" and you will be able to download what we Surveyors call the Land Registry File Copy Plan. I suspect you will be able to mark off the area of the rugby club ground that you use and send it to the NCAS.

Hope that helps.

[hooktonboy]

Originally Posted by TJ Mason

The latest mailing I received from the NCAS includes a letter and form asking the club to send its ground plans in, so they can be registered properly with the GNAS. It looks like something my predecessor should have done about 3 years ago but didn't.

Does anyone know what format these should be in and what level of detail is acceptable, given that we're not going to spend hundreds on a professional surveyor? I'm hoping it will be OK to do a schematic based on the results from Google maps - would that be acceptable?

And does anyone know what the next steps are after we've sent in the plans?

Hi TJ

I was having a look at the copies of our plans the other day - the ones that were checked over by GNAS for club registration. They're hand drawn (and probably not especially well-scaled) but they do clearly show dimensions especially of overshoot areas, safety zones at the side of the field, access points, footpaths and also areas that we "rope off" for safety. I guess these plans are about making sure range safety issues are covered for insurance purposes?

[Furface]

Yup, it's the range safety thing. Draw up some fairly accurate plans, and then get a Judge in to give your ground the once over. (Note: Must do this for Adel)

[bkupris]

We just went through this process setting up our new field club. We lease the land from Forestry Commission Scotland and we used a handheld GPS to plot every peg, target etc and they downloaded it all into their software (not sure what it was) and printed out maps to scale.

If you can possibly get access to something like this it makes easy work out of the job

[TJ Mason]

Thanks very much folks, sounds do-able.

[Fox]

Bye Bye Wakefield?

[mk1]

I just used Streetmap.co.uk. Pinpointed what I needed did a screen capture, or you can collect what you need square by square; and put the image into a Word doc, printed it out and then drew on it with writing implements.

I thought only new fields needed to be registered not ones that had been in use for years.