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£15m leisure centre opens in Banbury
Southampton Council
Cherwell District Council opens Spiceball Leisure Centre ahead of schedule
to sell off facilities
Southampton City Council is By Pete Hayman
planning to lease its loss-making
leisure facilities to private Cherwell District Council (CDC)
operators for 15 years. The has opened the new £15m
sports pitches at Mayfield Park, Spiceball Leisure Centre in
Riverside Park, Green Park, Banbury, Oxfordshire, which
Hoglands Park and the Veracity, has been completed on budget
Lordshill and Millbrook ahead of schedule.
recreation grounds could be Initially due to open in
offloaded, as could leases of land January 2010, the new centre
at the Alpine Centre, the replaces the former Spiceball
municipal golf course, Park Leisure Centre and forms
Southampton Sports Centre and part of a wider sports centre
Chamberlayne Leisure Centre. modernisation programme in The centre boasts a 150-station gym and an eight-court sports hall
the local area, which is being
Health club admits
led by Cherwell Community an exercise and dance studio, Burke Rickhards architects.
safety failures
Leisure, a wholly owned a health suite including CDC's portfolio holder for
Holmes Place Health Clubs has subsidiary of Parkwood Project spa, sauna and steamroom environment, recreation and
admitted breaking health and Management. facilities, a soft play area and health, George Reynolds, said:
safety laws following the death Facilities at Spiceball Leisure a meeting room also form part "Spiceball marks the culmination
of a 32-year-old female customer Centre include a 150-station of the complex, along with of this investment and I'm sure
at its City of London club in gym equipped by Precor, an wet and dry changing areas you'll appreciate how good the
March 2003. Holmes Place eight-court sports hall with and a café. centre is when you visit.
pleaded guilty to three charges spectator area, a six-lane, 25m Moss Construction, a "This has been a massive
relating to the operation of a swimming pool and a 20m x subsidiary of the Bedfordshire- project for the council and our
faulty lift. At a hearing in 10m training pool with based Kier Group, constructed gratitude should go to all those
Southwark Crown Court, the moveable floor. Two squash the new complex, which was involved in it's completion early
company admitted that it had courts, a multi-purpose studio, designed by Plymouth-based and within the agreed budget."
allowed employees to enter the
lift plant room and to operate
New gym opens
the lift machinery. The 32-year-
old was crushed to death after
in Wombwell
£3m revamp for college centre
being trapped between the A new gym has officially By Tom Walker
faulty lift and the wall of the lift been opened at Wom-
shaft. Holmes Place’s UK bwell Swimming Pool in The Manchester College is to
operations were acquired by rival Barnsley by Olympic invest £3m in redeveloping the
fitness chain Virgin Active in swimmer James Kirton. college's fitness and sport
September 2006. The health and fitness facilities. The health and
facility, which is managed fitness clubs at the college's
UKFN appoints
by Barnsley Premier Northenden and Moston
board members
Leisure, boasts a range of campuses have recently been
A further four members have Technogym equipment refurbished with around
been appointed as directors of and a dedicated free £100,000 being spent on The gym will be open to
the UK Fitness Network (UKFN). weights room. 30 cv stations and resistance both students and the public
The new directors are Steve Kirton, who had his first equipment supplied by Cybex.
Ward from Greenwich Leisure, swimming lessons at The Northenden campus has including levelling the floor
Peter King from Fusion, Karen Wombwell Swimming Pool also undergone substantial and adding a spa.
Burrell from Freedom Leisure over 15 years ago, said: building work converting The opening of the fitness
and Ken Leggate from Redbridge "This is just what Wom- workshops into a new fitness centres is the first phase of the
Sports and Leisure. The quartet bwell needs and I am suite, as well as the creation of college's plans to improve the
was elected at the UKFN's first looking forward to being a outdoor, multi use games provision of active leisure at the
AGM in December, to able to use the facilities area. At Moston, the old gym, institution. Further plans
help shape the strategic here myself." located in the basement of the include the redevelopment of
direction of the organisation. building, has been refurbished the old Harpurhey Baths.
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