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New gym facilities for Bisham Abbey
Hounslow Council
National Sports Centre to benefit from £2m redevelopment of fitness provision
to revamp centres
The London Borough of By Tom Walker
Hounslow has awarded
construction group Sisk a £15m Construction work has been
contract to carry out completed on a £2m project
improvement works to three of which has provided new
its leisure centres. The three training and rehabilitation
centres, managed by Fusion facilities at Bisham Abbey
Lifestyle on behalf of the council, National Sports Centre near
are Feltham Airparcs, New Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
Chiswick Pool and Isleworth The new facilities, which aim
Recreation Centre. Work on all to provide the English Institute
three sites will include new of Sport (EIS) with the best
changing facilities, gyms, studios, possible equipment to prepare
crèches, cafés and work to the for the London 2012 Olympics, The new facilities will cater for athletes from a number of sports
swimming pools. include a new strength and
conditioning gym with video canoeists and synchronised and embrace the latest sports
Teenagers 'defying'
analysis equipment. swimmers as well as hockey science techniques.
sunbed cancer risk
A training and agility area, players to enhance their The difference between
More than 250,000 young including a 30m indoor preparation ahead of the finishing on the podium and
people aged between 11-17 years running track, is also included London Games in 2012. missing out on a medal is tiny,
old are at risk of developing skin as part of the project, which Sports minister Gerry so we need to ensure our
cancer by using sunbeds, has been funded by Sport Sutcliffe said: "Bisham Abbey is athletes have the best training
according to research published England and carried out as the a world class facility and will support possible."
by Cancer Research UK. In a result of a partnership between support many of our Olympians Sport England property
letter to the British Medical national governing bodies, UK and Paralympians' preparations director Charles Johnston
Journal, the charity said that – Sport and EIS. for London 2012. The new added: "The improvements to
in England – an average of six It is hoped that the new training and rehabilitation Bisham Abbey will help give
per cent of young people use facilities will enable elite rowers, facilities are at the cutting edge top athletes that vital edge."
sunbeds, while half the number
of girls aged between 15-17 years
Abbey Centre
old in Liverpool and Sunderland
use the machines. The research
revamp begins
Revamp for énergie Croydon
follows a report published earlier A £1.2m revamp of the By Tom Walker
this year by the International Abbey Leisure Centre in
Agency for Research on Cancer Selby has been given the The owners of the énergie
(IARC), declaring a "clear link" green light. Fitness health club in Croydon,
between the use of sunbeds and Health and fitness Surrey, are to invest £0.5m in
skin cancer. improvements to the upgrading the site.
facility will include an The franchised club, owned
Mansfield leisure
expanded gym, a new and operated by Matthew
centre reopened
aerobics suite, and a new Russell and Calum Ross, will
A leisure complex in Mansfield, health suite with a sauna, undergo a redevelopment
which was forced to close after steamroom and a which will include replacing the
traces of the legionella bacteria members' lounge. old equipment with a range of
were found in the water system A new multipurpose new Precor cv stations and The gym has been completely
supplying showers, reopened on room will also be built for resistance kit. re-equipped with new kit
7 November. The Water Meadows functions, meetings and Calum Ross told Leisure
Swimming Complex was closed by crèche activities. Opportunities: "The refurbish- designed to maximise the
Mansfield District Council (MDC) The refurbishment is ment at the club will create a benefits of a regular fitness
as a precaution in October earmarked to begin on 4 completely new look to the regime, to our customers."
following the discovery of the January 2010, with entire facility." Privately owned énergie
bacteria, although no other completion expected by "We are bringing the very currently has close to 100
facilities – including the the end of June. latest equipment available on operational franchises in the
swimming pools – were affected. the market, that has been UK, Latvia and Qatar.
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