BOLTON Wanderers' super sports complex at Horwich could kick off with a £10 million plus cash boost.

Council chiefs have revealed that a £4.5 million bid for National Lottery cash will be made which would give Bolton some of the best sports facilities in the country.

And a £6 million European grant has been offered towards the road structure around the Red Moss site.

The lottery cash would be used for sports facilities on land south of the new 25,000 all-seater Bolton Wanderers stadium.

It would include indoor and outdoor tennis courts, all-weather five-a-side soccer pitches, a full-sized pitch, an athletics track, health and fitness facilities and training pitches.

A bid will also be put in for £750,000 funding from the Lawn Tennis Association and a further £250,000 from the Foundation for Sports and Arts. Cllr Bob Howarth, Bolton Council leader said at a management and finance committee meeting yesterday: "The bits of the jigsaw are now being put together."

The only sticking point is that the council is still waiting for the final planning hurdle to be cleared.

Environment Secretary John Gummer announced in January that the scheme should go ahead, as long as the council came up with new details on the effect it would have on traffic in the area.

Cllr Howarth said: "We gave these details weeks ago and we keep being told that we will get the final confirmation any day now.

"But it is good news that the European money has been offered on condition that this final planning permission is given." Mr Peter Stybelski, director of leisure services, added: "We are very confident about the Lawn Tennis Association grant.

"We also feel that it is a legitimate scheme for lottery funding and we are going for it."

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