NEWS IN BRIEF
PROPERTY DEVELOPER PAYS £180K TO KEEP BASEMENT POOL A property developer who excavated a large basement to house a gym and swimming pool under his £3m north London home, which was far in excess of his planning application, has been allowed to keep it by paying £180,000.
Marc Samuels paid the sum plus a contribution to legal costs to Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust as an out of court settlement, after the trust threatened to obtain a high court injunction to force him to fill in the basement.
Mr Samuels, who bought the property in 2007 for just under £3m, had originally applied to build a single-storey basement “of similar size to the proposed house footprint plus additional rear area for the proposed pool”, which stretched beneath his garden. The council and the trust, which rules on developments in the Hampstead Garden Suburb conservation area, granted permission for the planned work in 2012. However, when the basement was finally constructed, it stretched much further into the garden than was agreed on the original plans so as to accommodate a garden room, alongside a cinema, au pair’s room and study. In addition, the planned for swimming pool was then dropped down a further level, creating a two-storey basement complex, and was joined by an unplanned gym.
Hampstead Garden Suburb
Trust has strict rules concerning alterations to homes in the area and, when Samuels’ breach of permission came to light, it consulted lawyers about obtaining an injunction to force him to reverse the development. Following the settlement, Barnet council have now retrospectively granted Mr Samuels permission for the basement complex ruling that it did not “result in any material visual changes at ground level and above, from the approved scheme”.
www.swimmingpoolnews.co.uk
New Look And Feel For The Fairlocks Pool Products Website
With some new and exciting products coming to market soon, Paul Webb and the team at Fairlocks Pool Products felt it was time to give the website a bit of a facelift, and create a new style for their customers. With users visiting, downloading and viewing the catalogue regularly, the company wanted a site that was clear, functional and demonstrated the diversity of the products on offer.
Along with the latest news, there is a new ‘about us’ section and a forthcoming events section, and the company are hoping that their customers will be more informed about them as a business, and where they can meet the Fairlocks team. There’s also a more visible downloads section, which allows regular
Golden Coast’s SPATEX Plans
Golden Coast has announced its intention to exhibit at SPATEX 2016, where it promises to unveil a number of exciting innovations, but for the moment the company is keeping details of those products under wraps. “We always like to inspire SPATEX visitors with innovative, state-of-the-art developments that will give their business a boost, but the manufacturers with whom we work create new solutions at such a pace that we need to delay our final choice of exhibits until nearer the date of the event,” says Jamie Adams, Golden Coast’s Managing Director. “As the UK’s largest independent distributor of wet leisure products to the trade, enjoying exclusive distribution deals with many of the world’s leading design and manufacturing companies, we have no shortage of items from which to choose,” he adds. “Trying to anticipate what will happen next in this market is an interesting challenge and we look forward to seeing what up-to-the-minute technological progress unfolds in the next few months.”
Based on previous shows, it’s a reasonable guess that Golden Coast’s offering might include the latest advances in such specialist areas as automatic pool covers, lighting, water testing, disinfection and filtration, along with an update on what sauna and steam now have to offer the industry.
As usual, Golden Coast guarantees to back up its displays with expert technical advice, a warm welcome and a sense of humour. SPATEX 2016, billed as ‘The Pool, Spa and
Wellness Show’, will take place at the Jaguar Exhibition Hall of the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. Running from 31 January to 2 February, the show will be celebrating its 20th anniversary. Golden Coast can be found on stands B18 and B32.
Golden Coast 01271 378100
www.goldenc.co
customers that use their products to access product downloads in a much easier way. Paul Webb, Managing Director said: “The new website looks fresh and is now optimised for mobile, tablet and PC to ensure all of our customers have the best user experience of our website. Through the new site, we can make immediate updates, which will be important in
the coming months, with new products launching later this year and early 2016. Watch this space!”
Fairlocks Pool Products Ltd 01865 988346
www.fairlocks.co.uk
F T Leisure Wins Contract At Graves Leisure Centre
The new £16m Graves Leisure Centre will be the HQ for the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM) – a 2012 Olympic Legacy project funded by the Department of Health – with extensive provision for health consultation, specialist treatment services and research facilities. NCSEM aims to promote the benefits of sport, exercise and physical activity to sufferers of chronic diseases and aim to reduce their impact on the NHS.
The development will be built on the site of the current Graves tennis and leisure centre in the south of the city. It will include a 25-metre six-lane replacement for the existing swimming pool, a separate learner pool, a major new fitness suite and studios, two additional indoor tennis courts and the city’s first-ever dedicated gymnastics and trampolining centre. F T Leisure has been asked to supply, install and commission the water treatment and filtration systems. The filtration system is medium rate sand filtration and the water treatment consists of chlorine for disinfection, pH control and UV sterilisation.
The main contractor is Bam Construction and the architect is DarntonB3 Architecture working with Sheerwater Consultancy.
F T Leisure 0161 494 5785
www.ftleisure.co.uk
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