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£13m Rushden leisure plans submitted
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FaulknerBrowns-designed Manor Park Leisure Centre to replace Pemberton centre
£2.7m boost for Castle
Point leisure facilities
By Pete Hayman Castle Point Borough Council
(CPBC) has announced that a
East Northamptonshire Council number of its leisure facilities are
(ENC) has announced that it in line to receive a share of
has submitted detailed plans £2.7m towards renovation work.
for the new £13m Manor Park Waterside Farm Leisure Centre in
Leisure Centre, which is set to Canvey Island, Essex, will net
be built in Rushden. £1.3m to help fund work to
Working in partnership with improve the venue's lifespan by
Rushden Town Council, the up to 30 years, which is set to
centre is poised to include a include improvements to the roof,
six-lane, 25m swimming pool doors and windows. Nearly
and teaching pool, dance/ £724,000 will be invested in
exercise studios and a fitness When complete, the complex will include a 25m swimming pool upgrade work at Runnymede Pool
suite, as well as a six-court in Thundersley, which will benefit
sports hall. Plans for the venue, which is an additional £2m has been from repairs to boilers, pipework,
Leisure water facilities – such intended to replace the town's invested as part of the windows and doors, while
as jets and fountains – and existing Splash Leisure Pool and government's Growth Fund £76,000 will be spent on
flexible space for a crèche, Pemberton Centre, also provide through the North Northants improvements to the Paddocks.
theatre activities and commu- details on how Rushden and Development Company.
nity events are also set to form Higham Rugby Club will be East Midlands Development
Medal hailed a
part of the FaulknerBrowns accommodated at Manor Park. Agency has also agreed to
'funding success'
Architects-designed Manor Park ENC is contributing up to contribute £800,000 through John Steele, chief executive of
Leisure Centre. £11m towards the project, while Northamptonshire Enterprise. UK Sport, has hailed Amy
Williams' gold medal at the
England Squash
Vancouver 2010 Olympics as an
deal for Fusion
Ipswich pool upgrade underway
example of how targeted
investment can deliver results.
England Squash and Commenting on Williams's
Racketball (ESR) has agreed success at the skeleton event, he
a deal which will see the said: "British Skeleton received a
governing body deploying record £2.1m of lottery and
its coaches at publicly- exchequer funding for Vancouver
owned leisure centres in the through UK Sport and led by
south east of the country. performance director Andi
The deal, with leisure Schmid, they provide a great
trust Fusion Lifestyle, will example of a sport working in
also include a 'pay and partnership to achieve success on
play' scheme allowing the world stage."
amateur players using the Crown Pools will benefit as part of a wider IBC swimming initiative
public courts operated by
'Forgotten borough'
Fusion to become a By Pete Hayman which follows a £479,000
slams 2012 organisers
member of ESR and take scheme at the city's Fore Street Organisers of the 2012 Olympics
part in coaching Ipswich Borough Council (IBC) Pool last year. have been criticised for making
initiatives. The agreement has announced that construc- A new pool cover is also set Barking and Dagenham the
is the second national tion work has started on a to be installed to retain heat 'forgotten borough' of the London
partnership that ESR has £3.5m revamp of Crown Pools and reduce water evaporation Games by the local authority.
secured – a similar deal in Ipswich, Suffolk, as part of a at Crown Pools, which IBC has Liam Smith, leader of the London
was struck with DC Leisure wider investment in swimming. said is expected to stay open Borough of Barking and
last year – and forms part The venue is set to receive for the duration of the work. Dagenham council, said the
of ESR's long term strategy new changing rooms, a Further work to improve London Organising Committee of
to increase participation reception area and an Crown Pools as part of phase the Olympic and Paralympic
in the two sports. improved pool plant as part of two of the scheme is expected Games had failed to provide the
the first phase of the revamp, to get underway in April 2011. area with any benefits.
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