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Council unveils Maltby Leisure Centre
iN brief
New complex forms part of £35m borough-wide programme to improve facilities
Matrix appoints Cox
to expand reach
By Pete Hayman Fitness equipment supplier
Matrix Fitness Systems has
The new Maltby Leisure Centre appointed David Cox to lead its
– part of Rotherham Metropoli- efforts to increase its sales to
tan Borough Council's (RMBC) the uniformed services sector.
wider £35m overhaul of the Cox will focus on managing the
borough's leisure facilities – sales of equipment to the police,
has opened to the public. fire, prisons and the military
Originally due to open in services. Cox said: "I look
2009, the revised opening date forward to raising the profile in
of the centre – the last of four this sector and will relish the
facilities to be built in Rother- opportunity to work with the
ham – had to be put back after Ministry of Defence to provide
recent snow delayed the final A 50-station Kinetika gym is among the leisure centre's facilities fitness kit to the military."
stages of construction.
Delivered in partnership with A dance studio and a coffee Maltby Leisure Centre is the
Leeds Metropolitan
operator DC Leisure, Maltby bar are also among the result of a joint public/private
completes gym refits
Leisure Centre includes a facilities at the centre, which venture and was funded by the Leeds Metropolitan University
50-station Kinetika gym, a 25m was built by Willmott Dixon Department for Culture, Media has completed a revamp of its
competition-standard swim- and connects to a service and Sport and the Department two gyms. Both the university's
ming pool with moveable floor, centre featuring a doctor's for Communities and Local Headingley site and Civic Quarter
a diving pool with moveable surgery, a dental practice, a Government through its private campus have seen their gyms
floor and a six-court sports hall. pharmacy and council offices. finance initiative. remodelled for the first time in
10 years. The work was carried
out over the Christmas period
Detailed plans submitted for new Horley complex
and involved relaying floors and
knocking down walls, as well as
By Pete Hayman 314sq m (3,380sq ft) fitness replacing all the equipment with
suite, a 25m swimming pool £400,000 worth of Precor kit.
Detailed plans for a multi- and a learner pool, a four-court The Headingly campus gym now
million pound leisure centre on sports hall and a dance studio. boasts a 52-station fitness suite
the site of a former secondary Wet and dry changing areas and the Civic Quarter campus
school in Horley, Surrey, have and a reception are also among facility in the city centre has a
been submitted to Reigate and in the plans, which were drawn 60-station gym.
Banstead Borough Council. up by S&P Architects, as well as
Outline planning permission cycle and car parking.
New fitness trails
for the new complex was Energy-saving measures will
for Welsh NHS staff
awarded by council planners on Horley's proposed new centre be incorporated into the new Nearly £50,000 will be invested
25 March last year, although leisure centre to reduce carbon in the installation of fitness
the plans were referred to the Facilities at the centre, which emissions by 30 per cent, trails within the grounds of two
Government Office for the will replace the ageing Horley compared with the existing hospitals in Wales. Outdoor
South East for consideration. Anderson Centre, will include a Horley Anderson Centre. schemes are to be piloted at
Nevill Hall Hospital in
Abergavenny, South Wales and
£16.1m Knowsley leisure complex proposals approved
Ysbyty Alltwen in Tremadog,
Gwynedd, to promote healthy
Knowsley Council has approved plans to build Spa facilities are also planned, while one of lifestyles to all National Health
a £16.1m leisure complex at the site of the St the two pools will be built as an eight-lane Service (NHS) staff. The planned
Thomas Becket School in Huyton, Merseyside. competition pool with 300 spectator seats. trails, which will comprise five
Plans for Knowsley Leisure and Culture Park, There will also be extensive conferencing or six stations of equipment, will
include two 25m indoor swimming pools, a facilities capable of hosting a range of sporting form part of the Welsh Assembly
six-court sports hall, a health and fitness club, and cultural events, including award ceremo- Government's new Creating an
squash courts and dance and exercise studios. nies and art performances. Active Wales project to get more
people physically active.
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