WYCOMBE Sports Developments Ltd has finally unveiled detailed plans of the long-mooted stadium and sports village complex.

The bowl-shaped ‘fish scale’ stadium will be built at the heart of the complex proposed at Wycombe Air Park in Booker.

The “iconic” stadium will be sunk into the ground and hold a capacity of 17,500, with a standing area reserved behind each goal for about 2,000 fans.

It will feature new changing rooms, offices, club shops, a media centre, 18 hospitality boxes, a VIP lounge and a 4,000sq ft bar capable of catering up to 1,000 people.

State-of-the-art training facilities and academies for Wycombe Wanderers and London Wasps, and community pitches will be built to the west and north of the site.

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The main road into the site – dubbed Sports Boulevard – would house a badminton centre and racquets club, retail and commercial outlets earmarked for ‘local retailers’, and a 3-4 star hotel opposite the stadium.

Other facilities include an athletics track, ‘community rest areas’, and educational facilities. Space may also be available for a ‘free school’.

Operations at Wycombe Airpark itself will remain untouched, with the sports village and stadium creating about 400 new jobs.

A community of 506 homes, of which about 20 per cent will be affordable homes, is proposed for the south of the stadium.

There would be four access points into the complex and five exit routes from the site, with commuters urged to use junction 4 of the M40, with a new access road built off Handy Cross.

This would not affect Ragman’s Lane and would be “funded by the scheme”, WSDL said. A dedicated access would be available for residents.

WSDL says it will be a “green site” and estimates that build development will form about 22 per cent of the site, not the “concrete carbuncle” feared by protesters. Cash will be spent on landscaping and energy initiatives.

Construction is estimated to cost about £42.5m with a working capital requirement of £9.2m – a total of £51.7m.

This would be funded by private finance schemes, investments and land sales - and not equity funding from Wycombe District Council, WSDL said.

The complex would generate £520,000 of income every year for the council in rent for the next 125 years, and would not affect council tax or services.

A report by Savills estimates the current set-up at Adams Park generates £7.5m a year to the Wycombe area.

But this would double to £15m should the development get the go-ahead, with the complex estimated at ‘being worth £125m over a 25 year period’, a report by accounting and business experts Baker Tilly states.

The complex would also give both clubs a “sustainable future”, with WSDL estimating the clubs’ combined £3m loss for last season would turn into £3.4m profit in the 2015/16 season, when they hope to open the complex.

WSDL unveiled the plans after weeks of public silence and months of criticism about the controversial plans.

The organisation has admitted "things could have been done differently".

The plans were embargoed until today.

Check back on the site later today for more on this story.

See pages 18 and 19 of today’s Bucks Free Press to read a double page advert taken out by WSDL, outlining their vision of the sports village complex.