PLANS to build a £7 million sports club complex at Clifton Moor, York, have been submitted to City of York Council.

The Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC) has teamed up with Harrison Developments, of Malton, to come up with the scheme for land owned by Harrison behind the Ikon and Diva nightclub.

It could prove a lifeline to hundreds of sportsmen and women, following the recent closure of the Civil Service Sports Club, in Boroughbridge Road.

The proposed 11-acre complex would include 12 all-weather five-a-side football pitches and two full-size football pitches, a swimming pool and gymnasium, four tennis courts, squash courts and a cricket square.

Updated: 11:20 Saturday, May 31, 2003