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PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES The Wellington Rugby Football Union will be basing itself out of the hub from 2021.

A $30 million multi-discipline training facility in Upper Hutt is set to be a “game-changing” development for sport in New Zealand.

The sports hub at the New Zealand Campus of Innovation and Sport (NZCIS) is being touted as a comprehensive world-class facility that will combine accommodation, physical training areas, and performance data collection and analysis services.

The final consents for the hub, which has been financed by developers Malcolm Gillies and Kevin Melville, were granted in December. Groundwork has already started.

From left, Malcolm Gillies, Kevin Melville and Jamie Tout on the former CIT site where the sports facility in Upper Hutt will be developed. The 17 hectare site will contain
accommodation, catering, physical training areas, recovery rooms, and data
collection and analysis technology. — ROSS GIBLIN/STUFFFrom left, Malcolm Gillies, Kevin Melville and Jamie Tout on the former CIT site where the sports facility in Upper Hutt will be developed. The 17 hectare site will contain accommodation, catering, physical training areas, recovery rooms, and data collection and analysis technology.

The sports hub will be part of an $80m upgrade of the former Central Institute of Technology site in Heretaunga, which Gillies and Melville bought in 2015.