NEWS
£36m sports centre for Huddersfield
K
irklees Council has unveiled its
development plans for the con-
struction of a new £36.2m
sports centre in Huddersfield, which
is to form part of the wider regeneration
of the West Yorkshire town.
The new facility will be built on the
Spring Grove car park in Springwood
and is to be funded by the sale of the
existing Huddersfield Sports Centre
site in Southgate for the development
of a Tesco supermarket.
Plans for the new leisure complex
include a leisure water attraction incor-
porating a beach, wave machine, flume
and sidewinder, while other facilities
Facilities at the centre will include two sports halls and a 25m swimming pool
will include a 25m, eight-lane swimming
pool, a teaching pool with moveable and the Tesco supermarket are due tion of the company’s existing Viaduct
floor and a fitness suite. to be submitted within the next few Street site to get underway in 2016.
Two sports halls and facilities for weeks, before a public consultation is Mehboob Khan, Kirklees Council
climbing, squash and martial arts also held to enable local residents to com- leader, said that while the council could
form part of the proposals, as well as ment on the plans. refurbish the town’s existing facilities in
a café and a children’s area, in a bid to If approved, work is set to start on the order to bring them up to standard, the
promote health and wellbeing among new sports centre in late 2010, while the length of time it would take and the
the local communities. A planning ap- new Tesco supermarket could be ready costs involved made it more viable to
plication for both the new sports centre to open in 2014 to allow the regenera- pursue a new-build option.
Pool provision
ECB secures £37.8m for grassroots
aspirations
for Birmingham
T
he development of grassroots Birmingham City Council is to pursue
cricket is set to receive a £37.8m its plans for increasing swimming
funding boost as part of a new pool provision for local residents.
four-year programme drawn up by the In December 2008, the cabinet
England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) agreed in principle to develop the
and Sport England. Birmingham Aquatics and
Projects that seek to increase partici- Leisure Complex in Ladywood
pation and improve opportunities for and to replace – or refurbish –
women, girls and disabled players will Sparkhill Pool, Harborne Pool and
be among those to benefit from Sport Stechford Cascades.
England grants, as well as schemes to Councillors also decided that
create new pathways for excellence from
The funding will be used to
detailed proposals for each scheme
the playground to Test cricket.
develop cricket at all levels
would be re-evaluated by the full
ECB chief executive David Collier said: cabinet in September 2009, before
“Sport England will also be bringing for- funding for projects that not only in- planning applications are submitted.
ward further lottery funding opportuni- crease participation in cricket but address An application to replace
ties based on potential priority policy wider policy objectives such as improving Harborne Pool and develop the
themes such as increasing participation health and building social inclusion.” Aquatics Centre and to will shortly
by women and girls, improving school- Funding as part of the Whole Sport go before the cabinet.
club links and building sustainable com- Plan for 2009-13 will also be directed If approved, the venues are
munity sports clubs. towards the Cricket Foundation’s Chance scheduled to be fully operational
“Cricket has a major contribution to to shine initiative, with more than by December 2011 and February
make in this area and we will be working 300,000 young people in schools across 2012 respectively.
with Sport England to secure further the country set to benefit.
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