Plans for a new £2 million boat house in a Marlow park to replace school rowers’ current “atrocious” boat launch have been revealed.

A planning application for a new boat house at Gossmore Park is expected to be submitted to Wycombe District Council “imminently” and if given the green light, will provide somewhere for rowers at Sir William Borlase’s and Great Marlow School to store their equipment.

The current field the rowers use at Longridge is “atrocious”, according to Rick Krajewski, who on the committee behind the plans.

He said: “Longridge is inexpensive for both schools, but as a boat launch in anything other than sunny dry weather it is rubbish. The fields that the kids put their boats is atrocious with any sort of rain flow.

“It doesn’t work for Longridge and it doesn’t work for the schools, so they really should have their own house. Both my kids row at Borlase. The gear they have is exposed to the elements.”

Despite the plans not yet being submitted for approval, Mr Krajewski says Olympic rower Helen Glover and Paralympic star Naomi Riches will be patrons.

While hailing the plans as “fantastic”, he added that there is expected to be some concerns from residents of Gossmore Lane, Glade Road and Lock Road about transport.

He said: “There are all sorts of issues people could have with it but if it works, it will be a great facility for the schools. I think the main issue people will have will be transport.

“People on Glade Road and Lock Road are the ones who complain when the rugby club has its big bash and they bring the coaches down there. The problem with a trailer full of eights [rowing boats] is that they don’t reverse. The Marlow Society and other bodies will have their own views.”

Detailed plans have yet to be made public, but it is believed they will include a three or four bay building, a bigger car park, raised ground for “better use of the river” and pedestrian access across the front of the site.

Mr Krajewski added: “Hopefully this one will go through but Borlase and GMS have been talking about this for 15 years and it’s probably the 15th proposal but this one has got further than before. This is the most progressed plan the schools have ever come up with but it has got to go through a lot of hoops yet.”