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Leeds University: A partially moveable floor will ensure the pool is able to host a wide range of activities
EARLY 2010 MARCH 2010
£25M COMPLEx IN HILLINgDON HARTsDOwN RECEIVEs REfURbIsHMENT
The first 50m pool to be built in London for more than 40 Hartsdown Leisure Centre in Margate is to re-open in
years is due to open in a £25m complex early this year. March 2010 following a £1.6m refurbishment.
The pool is part of a widescale redevelopment of sports Thanet Leisureforce has built a new gym, doubling the
facilities in the London Borough of Hillingdon, which number of work stations on offer, and has also added two
also involves the refurbishment of the adjacent, 1930s new exercise studios for classes, a soft play facility and
Uxbridge outdoor lido and an athletics stadium, sports a café. The existing reception and changing areas for the
hall and fitness centre. sports hall are also being revamped. The project is being
The project has been funded by Hillingdon Council funded and managed by Alliance Leisure.
(£22m), the London Development Agency (£2.025m), Sport
England (£1.5m) and the Heritage Lottery Fund (£1m).
MAY 2010
LEIsURE COMPLEx fOR UNIVERsITY Of LEEDs
MARCH 2010
A new £12.2m swimming pool and fitness complex – one of
AsHTON LEIsURE CENTRE, wIgAN the largest to be built at a UK university – is due to open at
A £715,000 refurbishment of Ashton Leisure Centre, in the University of Leeds in May this year.
Ashton-In-Makerfield, near Wigan, is on schedule to be Also open to the community, facilities will include an eight-
completed in March 2010. lane, 25m swimming pool with a partially moveable floor to
Part of the government’s free swimming scheme, the bid create depths of up to 2m (6.6ft), ensuring it’s suitable for
includes a full refurbishment of the entrance area and the hosting water-based sports activities such as water polo,
pool hall, and the incorporation of dedicated accessible canoe polo and sub-aqua. There will also be spectator seating.
changing into the existing changing rooms. There will also The centre will also offer a 900sq m (9,688sq ft),
be improved ventilation in the pool hall and changing rooms. 200-station Technogym-equipped fitness suite, a health
The work is being commissioned by Wigan Leisure & suite with sauna and steamroom, squash courts, dance
Culture Trust on behalf of Wigan Council. studios, changing rooms and a café.
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