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in brief... holt park secures funding
Leeds City Council has announced early stages, whereas we hope to start
link4life secures nhs funding that it has secured funding for the construction on the other two facilities
Link4Life, the sports trust working construction of a new leisure and this summer.
in the borough of Rochdale, is to wellbeing centre in Holt Park. “All three facilities will be fi nanced
receive direct funding from the The Department of Health has through the PFI, but the DCMS, which
NHS to provide free access to its confi rmed the allocation, in principle, of is providing the credits for the other
SHOKK youth gyms for eight- to £32m of Private Funding Initiative (PFI) two projects, says it cannot issue any
15-year-olds. credits for the new centre, which will more. It has therefore referred it to the
The funding has been awarded combine services provided by Leeds Department of Health for social care PFI
by NHS Heywood, Middleton & City Council’s adult social care, youth credits instead.”
Rochdale as part of a grant to and sports services, NHS Leeds, and the The Morley and Armley centres are
promote healthy lifestyles. local community. set to become community sports hubs
The cash will support a range The site will be the third facility being with links to schools, Primary Care
of initiatives for families and built under the council’s PFI, called Trusts and Social Services.
young people, as well as weight New Leaf Leisure Centres Project,
management projects already in following similar £30m developments in
place to tackle the rising obesity Armley and Morley.
problem in both children and adults. The Holt Park facility, to be called
Access to all these schemes will New Leaf Well Being Centre, will
be via local health centres. include a 25m swimming pool, an easily
accessible learner pool with a beach, a
free inductions for adults sports hall and a Bodyline gym. It will
Stockton Primary Care Trust, in also have conference and multi-purpose
partnership with sports trust Tees rooms that will host health education
Active, is offering free Activ8 gym workshops and exercise classes.
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inductions to adults who live in the The wellbeing aspects include a
borough of Stockton-on-Tees. hydrotherapy pool, sensory rooms and a
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Billingham Forum. A spokesperson to replace the existing Holt Park
for Tees Active says: “More than Leisure Centre and to contribute to the
27 million adults in England are regeneration of the area.
not getting enough exercise and 14 A spokesperson for the council says: Morley and Armley centres are set
million don’t complete 30 minutes “The plans for Holt Park are in the very to become community sports hubs
exercise a week.
“The government is hoping to
get 70 per cent of the population
winsford lifestyle centre opens
physically active for 30 minutes, fi ve
times a week. Currently only 30 per The £10.8m Lifestyle Centre in pool and a learner pool, as well as two
cent of the population is achieving Winsford, Cheshire, is now open. squash courts, a dance studio and a
this target.” Fitness facilities consist of a 48-station multi-purpose hall with tiered, foldaway
gym, equipped by Life Fitness, with a seating to accommodate basketball,
obesity strategy launched free weights area and a health suite badminton and fi ve-a-side football.
DC Leisure’s programme to tackle offering a sauna, steamroom and spa Conference and event rooms will be
the obesity levels in Rotherham, pool. There is also a 25m swimming complemented by a cyber café and bar.
developed in partnership with the Developer Morgan Ashurst will now
NHS, has begun. demolish the aged Winsford Sports
The programme is aimed Complex, standing on the same site as
primarily at children between the the new Lifestyle Centre, in order to
ages of eight and 17 years old who provide landscaped gardens.
have a history of weight issues. “One of the marks of a great leisure
The programme contains weekly centre is whether the space is fl exible
lifestyle sessions, to be managed by enough to meet the needs of the
DC Leisure on behalf of Rotherham community,” says Morgan Ashurst’s
Metropolitan Borough Council, and contracts manager Colin Dobson. “The
has been designed to form links multi-use hall fi ts that brief because it
between schools and leisure centres allows a wide range of people – from
in the area. £10.8m centre is “fl exible enough to amateur dramatics clubs to basketball
meet the needs of the community” squads – to use the same space.”
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