Normanby Hounds set to receive new club house on Graceville riverfront location

One of the city’s oldest rugby league clubs has unveiled the giant plans which will recreate its home grounds.

One of Brisbane’s oldest homes of rugby league will be transformed as plans for a swanky new clubhouse are revealed.

Normanby Rugby League Football Club has lodged plans with Brisbane City Council for a new modern clubhouse, with designs unveiling new dining spaces, a bar, change rooms and function rooms.

Designed by Mode Design, the impressive new two-storey clubhouse would also feature balconies and large windows maximising views from inside the space.

The proposal would see the old clubhouse removed and replaced with the new design in the same location next to the sports fields.

River front development location, Graceville

Planners DTS Group QLD said “the proposal does not result in any adverse negative impacts on the surrounding built form and premises. The development does not alter the existing access and carparking arrangement, or the infrastructure and servicing provided to the site”.

Features of the new clubhouse include new home and away team change rooms, food and drink services, public rest rooms, private function rooms, meeting and office rooms and broadcast room.

Ground floor design.

First floor design.

“Despite the proposed development providing for extensions which result in a new built form replacing the current clubhouse structure, the proposal does not result in any adverse negative impacts on the surrounding built form and premises,” the application said.

Design proposal for new clubhouse

“The development does not result in the removal of any existing vegetation and does not alter the existing hours of operation and associated noise caused from the associated outdoor sport and recreation use”.

Normanby RLFC is one of Brisbane’s oldest surviving amateur Rugby League Football Clubs, formed in 1947, and was originally based at the Normanby Hotel.

Design for new two story clubhouse.