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£8m for National Indoor BMX Centre
2010 reopening for
Venue to host international competitions and offer British squad training facilities
Birmingham baths
Birmingham City Council (BCC) By Pete Hayman
has confirmed that Newtown
Baths is set to reopen in early A new £19m National Indoor
2010 after it secured funding for BMX Centre is set to be built in
the restoration of the facility. Manchester after the North
Newtown Baths closed earlier West Regional Development
this year after traces of asbestos Agency (NWDA) provided
were found in the building's the remaining £8m needed
ceiling and roof, but work is now to fund the scheme.
set to start on a £140,000 Located at Sportcity, to the
scheme to remove the asbestos east of Manchester, the facility
and install new structural will be the first covered BMX
supports. BCC cabinet member venue of its kind in the UK and
for leisure, sport and culture, will attract more than 120,000 It is hoped the centre will attract more than 120,000 visitors a year
Martin Mullaney, said: "Re- visitors each year. It will also
opening this pool is a major host a number of national and squad facilities across a wide national governing body,
boost and this terrific news international events. range of disciplines. British Cycling.
clearly demonstrates our The 15,300sq m (164,688sq Facilities at the new BMX Other facilities at Sportcity
commitment to community pools ft) National Indoor BMX Centre complex will include a 100m x include the National squash
here in Birmingham." will provide a link to the 70m (328ft x 230ft) cycling and tennis centres, the
Manchester Velodrome to form track, seating capacity for Regional Athletics Arena and
Fetcham sports pavilion
a new National Cycling Centre, 2,000 spectators, a café and the English Institute of Sport
to be demolished
offering the British cycling office accommodation for the North West Support Centre.
A sports pavilion at the Cock
Lane Recreation Ground in
Fetcham, Surrey, is to be
Tottenham Hotspur submits redevelopment plans
demolished after Mole Valley
District Council ruled that it was By Pete Hayman Development Project also
no longer safe. The condition of includes a public square, a
the pavilion, which was last Plans for the Northumberland hotel, new space for the
used in December 2008, has Development Project, which Tottenham Hotspur Foundation
deteriorated over "a number of will include a new 56,250-seat and a supermarket, as well as
years" and the council has said stadium for Tottenham Hotspur new homes.
that it is no longer economically Football Club have been The new stadium, originally
viable to repair the structure. submitted to Haringey Council. designed by architects KSS
The projected capacity of the Group as a 60,000-seat venue,
Batley unveils new
stadium has been reduced from will be built on an area of land
sports centre
58,000 after the club revised Rendering of the new stadium covering 20 acres (8.1-hect-
Batley Sports and Tennis Centre the plans to incorporate a new ares). The site incorporates the
in West Yorkshire has reopened 63-row, single-tier stand, which In addition to the proposed club's existing White Hart Lane
its sports hall following a it hopes will create "the most stadium, the multi-million ground, as well as an adjacent
refurbishment. The six- atmospheric stadium in Europe". pound Northumberland industrial area.
badminton court hall has been
closed since the summer and now
boasts new heating, ventilation,
Flood-damaged Cheltenham cricket facility reopens
lighting and Taraflex flooring.
The work is part of a £4.6m The cricket hall at the leisure@cheltenham leisure centre in Gloucestershire has fully reopened to
project at the centre which will the public following a multi-million pound refurbishment.
also see a revamped 40-station The centre was badly damaged during the 2007 floods and the multi-use sports hall – the last
gym open in January and the part of the revamp to be completed – has been forced to stay closed until now.
refurbished and redecorated The £200,000 redevelopment of the hall included new flooring, doors and cricket netting and a
swimming pool unveiled next full internal re-fit of changing facilities. The hall is one of only a handful of indoor facilities in the
summer. The facility is managed UK which provides specialist cricket performance characteristics.
Kirklees Active Leisure.
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