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Artist’s impression of the Sandwell Aquatics Centre
Designs unveiled for aquatics centre
Designs for the new £60m state- of-the-art Sandwell Aquatics Centre – which will be used for the 2022 Commonwealth Games - have been unveiled and are out for public consultation. Plans for the aquatics centre
include a 50m Olympic-sized competition swimming pool, a 25m diving pool, a studio pool and 1,000 spectator seats. Alongside the swimming
facilities, the centre will boast a dry-dive facility, 108-station gym, a 25-station ladies-only gym, three
activity studios, an eight-court sports hall, indoor cycling studio, sauna/steam room and café. The site, at Londonderry Playing
Fields, will also include 450 on-site car parking spaces, a football pitch and changing facilities, an improved urban park and children’s play area. Councillor Steve Eling, leader of
Sandwell Council, said: “It’s exciting for us to be hosting a major international event while creating a building that’s going to deliver world-class leisure opportunities for local people.”
• Ian Reid has been appointed permanent chief executive of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee. He was chief financial officer for the Glasgow Games in 2014 and had
been serving as interim CEO for Birmingham 2022. The 2022 Games Organising Committee board line-up has also been finalised. Five-time Paralympic swimming champion Ellie Simmonds, the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society’s deputy chief executive Lyndsey Jackson, newspaper columnist Nick Timothy and West Midlands Combined Authority nominee Derrick Anderson have joined the 14-strong board, which is chaired by former Birmingham Chamber president John Crabtree.
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