HEALTH & FITNESS
IN BRIEF
Bolton college to open new gym
Bolton Community College has
invested in a new on-campus health and fitness club as part of a £70m redevelopment of facilities at the college. To be housed in a purpose-built building on the town's Dean Road, the 140sq m club will be kitted out by supplier Precor and is scheduled to open in time for the 2010-11 academic year in September. The club will be available to students and staff as well as being used for sports teaching sessions. Most of the 30 pieces of Precor equipment – including two Adaptive Motion Trainers – will be fitted with personal viewing screens. The Precor team has also been involved with the design of the gym.
Tobacco giant opens corporate gym
The world's second largest
quoted tobacco group - British American Tobacco - has opened a corporate fitness club at its offices in Hampshire, UK. Called Energise Fitness, the club has been fitted with Precor equipment and will be operated by Bladerunner. The new facility is part of a larger project to redevelop the site in Southampton, which employs more than 900 people.
SLL unveils revamped gym
Sports trust Stevenage Leisure (SLL) has officially opened its refurbished fitness@the leisure centre gym at the town's Arts & Leisure Centre. Stevenage Borough Council contributed £250,000 towards the revamp of the facility, which now features an open plan design with mezzanine floor, a new entrance and changing area and a new cycling studio, as well as improved wheelchair access.
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Work starts on £12m Matlock centre
Long-awaited Central Area Leisure Centre scheduled to open by summer 2011
By Pete Hayman
A foundation stone has been unveiled as part of a ceremony to mark the start of work on a new £12m leisure centre on a brownfield site between Darley Dale and Matlock, Derbyshire. Morgan Ashurst has been
appointed to deliver the Central Area Leisure Centre (CALC) scheme, which is being project managed by consultants Drivers Jonas and is due for completion in summer 2011. The complex, which is being
developed on a site near the A6 called The Dimple, will include an eight-lane swimming pool with a moveable floor and is designed to meet regional and county competition requirements. A sports hall with county-standard badmin- ton courts and facilities for five-a-side football, basketball, indoor hockey, volleyball and cricket nets, as well as a second
Soton deal for DC Leisure
Southampton City Council (SCC) has appointed DC Leisure and its charity partner Active Nation to take over the operation of the city's leisure facilities as part of a 15-year lease. The partnership will
take over the Bitterne Leisure Centre, the Quays
'Eddie Read' Swimming and Diving Complex, Chamberlayne Leisure Centre, Woodmill Activity Centre and Southampton Alpine Centre as well as numerous sports pitches. The council is looking to
increase the number of people using SCC's leisure facilities by 15 per cent.
Facilities at the centre will include an eight-lane swimming pool
hall for aerobics, fitness classes, martial arts and yoga form part of the scheme. A café, meeting rooms and
changing facilities are also included as part of the CALC development, along with a community room to replace the existing Darley Dale Community Centre. Derbyshire Dales District
Council (DDDC) is providing £7m towards the development,
as well as £3.7m from East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA) and grants from Sport England and Derbyshire Economic Partnership. EMDA chair Dr Bryan Jackson
said: "Matlock is developing with the by-pass and Sains- bury's and this is going to be an iconic building that will put Matlock on the map for the right reasons. It's all good news - a win-win situation."
£9m Lanark leisure centre opens
By Pete Hayman
A new £9m community leisure centre has opened its doors to the public in Lanark, South Lanarkshire, to replace the town's former swimming pool in South Vennel. South Lanarkshire Lifestyles
- Lanark was built by Stirling- based Ogilvie Construction and is run by South Lanarkshire Leisure (SLL) on behalf of South Lanarkshire Council (SLC). Facilities at the new centre
include a 25m swimming pool with floating floor, a health suite area boasting a sauna and steamroom, a hydrotherapy pool and a 30-station fitness gym equipped by PowerPlate, Life Fitness and Hur.
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Facilities at the centre include a 30-station fitness suite
A dance studio fitted with
sound system, sprung floor and mirrored wall and a changing village, boasting disabled facilities and outdoor changing areas, also form part of the development, as well as a Starbucks café.
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