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club
overhaul
C R E A T E A B I L I T Y old facili
ties
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Five-court sports hall
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150sq m fi tness suite
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Changing facilities
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Bar
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Mobile soft play equipment
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100sq m studio
LEISURE
new f
aciliti
es
ENVIRONMENTS
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240sq m Impressions fi tness suite
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170sq m soft play area
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ZigZag interactive zone
FROM EVERY
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75sq m general activities room
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Heat experience spa offering
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fl oral steam
ANGLE
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crystal steam
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herb sauna
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Treatment rooms offering holistic
therapies
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Relaxation zone and massage bed
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Café
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New reception area
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New changing rooms including a
team changing area
facilities and, in turn, to increase redevelopment without closure or
revenue. Sarah Watts, MD of Alliance financial inconvenience.” A two-phase
Leisure, explains: “A four-court sports plan was implemented, starting on-site in
hall will generate £60,000–£70,000 of April 2008 with provision to ensure that
revenue a year, due to the nature of the the facilities remained open at all times.
activities that can take place: 10 people Careful planning and project
playing fi ve-a-side football, for example, management of the two phases was vital
or eight people playing badminton. to ensuring no revenue was lost. Ian
“We wanted to create a site with a Cotgrave, Createability MD, observes:
wider mix of activities across fi tness, “Apart from a few technical hitches that
• Specialist leisure development
play and spa, as this can accommodate a were overcome on-site, the only issue
• Integrated, bespoke design
great deal more people and, dependent that needed addressing on a longer-
• Business focussed asset solutions
on the mix of facilities, generate more term basis was the loss of male changing
than four times the revenue each year.” rooms [while the redevelopment work
• Time and budget compliant
was underway], which was solved with
• Stylish, functional, durable quality open all hours portable changing cabins. The centre
• Long-term development partnerships
Working with design and build experts remained open throughout and, despite
Createability, a plan was devised to the complexity of the equipment move,
redevelop two of the courts and create a the only area that had to close for one
mezzanine floor to maximise space. day was the fi tness studio.”
Simon Bell, general manager of While the public continued to use the
Huntingdon District Council Leisure existing fi tness suite, a new 72-station,
Centres, says: “One of our main 240 sq m (2,583sq ft) Impressions
challenges was to convince our Cabinet fi tness suite was built in the area
that the changes would be worthwhile created by the mezzanine fl oor. Existing
and that we could manage the Technogym fi tness equipment was
moved into this gym, along with new
equipment from the Technogym Excite
line, new strength kit, a BalanceMaster
lower limb exerciser, fi ve Concept2
rowers, two Trixter X-dream bikes and
a Galileo vibration plate.
The fi rst phase of the project, which
included the fi tness studio, a state-of-
the-art ZigZag family interactive zone
and a 170 sq m (1,830sq ft), 83-child-
Wellbeing The old gym has been capacity ‘Fun Zone’ soft play facility was
Tel: 01256 818915
converted into a relaxation zone fully operational by November 2008.
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