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has been carrying out training seminars for
companies who see the wooden building
PINELOG SHOWS HOW IT’S DONE
market as a sales opportunity.
Midlands garden and landscaping Pinelog has demonstrated how it can dramatic, airy building which achieves
timber specialist M&M Timber Ltd set out design a building which from an external excellent natural lighting through its
on a year long programme of new point of view is very traditional but extensive fenestration. The timber frame
product launches which has put the internally incorporates imaginative and roof are also naturally resistant to the
Worcester company amongst the market architectural features. humidity associated with indoor pools.
leaders. With some 850 tent, caravan, motor The mezzanine level fitness and beauty
Says Managing Director Nigel Poyner, “I home and holiday home pitches, Home therapy suites are supported on elegant
have seen some tremendous changes in Farm Holiday Park near Burnham-on-Sea timber columns with the gymnasium
the marketplace, not least in the range and is one of the largest holiday parks in having two full-width glass curtain walls.
diversity of garden products now available. Somerset. Thanks to the unreliability of This floor is reached via stairs leading
It’s important that we keep ahead of the the British climate its owners decided to from the changing areas and a disabled
trends and in that respect our experience provide added value to their visitors by lift which gives access to wheelchair users.
counts for a lot.” offering year-round leisure facilities, A protruding gable entrance leads to a
Latest is a covered seating feature for thereby “weatherproofing” holidays. lobby area with seating and the main
that special place in the garden, together A modern leisure centre was required reception desk. A floor to ceiling glass
with some surprise new entries that will be alongside the existing outdoor swimming wall and door between the lobby and the
kept under wraps until the Garden & pool. It would sit in its open parkland pool means that staff can monitor users
Leisure Exhibition (GLEE) opens at the NEC setting and for planning purposes, be at all times.
in September. Earlier this year M&M Timber sympathetic with surrounding buildings. The new leisure centre was designed
launched the Sundowner Bar, a must for It had to include a swimming pool and a to match the other buildings on the park,
anyone with a taste for sophisticated al number of other leisure facilities and be its exterior walls are therefore clad with
fresco entertaining specially alongside a capable of accepting day to day use by white painted block and render, relieved
pool. It makes an ideal centrepiece as a large numbers of visitors and private by red brick piers. It also has a gabled
temporary bar for barbecue areas, poolside members. hipped roof with distinctive red clay tiles.
or outdoor events. Home Farm Holiday Park’s Fusion The Fusion Leisure Centre demonstrates
Adds architect Ian Porter: ”The levels of Leisure Centre is a timber frame building how a building which although looking
investment people are prepared to make which externally is in total harmony with very traditional from the outside can still
have clearly changed in the past few surrounding architecture. It provides incorporate imaginative architectural
years. Moving home more regularly isn’t 860m
2
of floor space, distributed over features. It is a stunning facility with a
as much of an option so the £3,000 spend two levels, accomodating at ground level pleasant ambience, good natural light and
to add to an outdoor pool complex with a a 15m x 13m L-shaped swimming pool, a excellent external views – all under a
pool room, changing room is seen as children’s splash pool with water jets, gently contoured light timber ceiling.
good value. spa, sauna, steam room, changing Managing Director Geoff Atkinson
“A good number of gardens are facilities, and a reception with a coffee said: “The centre is not exclusively for
overlooked and the option of a garden shop and viewing area. holidaymakers though – to improve the
gazebo combines privacy with the On a mezzanine floor overlooking the financial return on the facility, we saw the
opportunity to shelter within an enclosed pool is a gymnasium with the latest opportunity to develop a private
area.” running, step and rowing machines, a members club for local residents and had
Spa dealer Paul Wright decided to add beauty thereapy room and store rooms. over 300 enquiries before we opened!”
his own gazebo offer to customers – and The timber frame is clearly expressed
hit on a real success story. “It’s clear that internally. The glulam arched roof structure
PINELOG
most people who buy from us want an spans wall to wall, providing the necessary
pc www.pinelog.co.uk
outside hot tub. I always felt there was space for the various pools and produces a
something missing in our offer to buyers
so we set up a deal to offer thatched
gazebo’s to cover the tubs and the
The glulam arched roof structure at Home
Farm Holiday Park near Burnham-on-Sea spans
impact was instant. We deal with M&M wall to wall, providing space for the various
and they offer a great service and we
pools and produces a dramatic, airy building
decided to take hardly any margin on the
deal as it makes the sale much easier. We
now sell a gazebo over a pool to one in
three purchases.” spn
FURTHER INFORMATION
ENGLISH HERITAGE
telephonesolid 01424 838643
pc www.ehbp.com
FINLOG UK
telephonesolid 020 8449 7078
pc www.finlog.co.uk
FREEDOM LEISURE
telephonesolid 01268 530333
pc www.freedom-leisure.com
M&M TIMBER
telephonesolid 01299 832611
pc www.mmtimber.co.uk
NORWEGIAN LOG BUILDINGS
telephonesolid 0118 966 9236
pc www.norwegianlog.co.uk
SCP UK
telephonesolid 01268 273040
pc www.scpuk.com
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