Swimming Pool Scene COMMERCIAL POOL SCENE
Birmingham Gets Sets For New Pool
The new Erdington Leisure Centre in north Birmingham has been designed to provide the whole community with a fresh, modern exercise and recreation venue.
It features a 25m pool, a teaching pool, a 70-station gym and a community room/studio space.
The brand-new building has taken just over a year to construct and is opening almost a month ahead of schedule and on budget. The £7.5million replacement of Erdington’s leisure centre is part of a city-wide investment of nearly £40 million by Birmingham City Council and is the first of four new complexes to be completed. Birmingham Community Leisure Trust (BCLT), working in partnership with Birmingham City Council (BCC), has overseen the project and will manage the new centre once it opens its doors. BCLT Chair, Brian Taylor, said: “The transformation of this Erdington site since we stood here last summer is truly impressive. I am very proud to hand over such a high quality, purpose built facility to our community and I invite everyone, whatever their age and whatever sport they enjoy, to take the opportunity to come and use this brilliant new centre.”
ABOVE: The brand-new Erdington Leisure Centre opened last month.
Birmingham City Council’s Deputy Leader Cllr Ian Ward added: “I am delighted that our residents in Erdington and the surrounding area now have a brand-new leisure centre – ahead of schedule - and I thank our partners for working with us to provide cost effective and modern facilities. Despite the considerable budgetary restraints, we face, we will continue to support and encourage people to remain active and pursue a healthy lifestyle.”
Resort Debuts Largest Waterpark Encompassing 20,000 m2 , the Aqua Park at Ujevara Resort is part of a growing trend in the Balkans.
The Ujevara Resort, which opened in June, offers a mix of attractions for all ages. Adults enjoy Polin’s multislide, black hole, body slide, space hole, aquatube, kamikaze, freefall, rafting slide and wave slide. Kids will delight in the company’s smaller versions of the multi slide, aquatube and compact slide, along with a mini pirate ship, baby octopus slide, rabbit slide, frog slide, mushroom and octopus slide. “We’ve been working in the Mediterranean for many years with successful projects in Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Egypt and smaller countries,” comments Kubilay Alpdogan, Director of Sales and Design of Polin Waterparks, who says that the area is rich with opportunity. “It’s good to see the number of waterparks beginning to open in the Balkans specifically. We’re focusing on helping developers in these areas create oases that blend relaxation and recreation.” Afrim Hoxha, partner of the Ujevara resort, says guests have provided a lot of positive feedback from their visits. “I’ve heard
ABOVE: The 20,000m2 the Balkans.
Aqua Park at Ujevara Resort reflects a growing trend in
comments ranging from ‘Just amazing!’ and ‘Wonderful!’ to ‘Fantastic,’ along with general compliments about our facility. Working with the team at Polin Waterparks allowed us to create a resort that people love. We’re very pleased with the entire experience.”
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