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New trampoline park made from shipping containers


A £3m trampoline park and indoor play centre constructed using shipping containers has opened in Newquay. Leisure design and build specialist Createability worked with Saunders Boston Architects to create the 1,800sq m facility behind the town’s Waterworld. Managed by GLL under its Better Extreme


brand, Newquay Trampoline and Play Park comprises a main jumping area, joisting pit, two dive towers, trick zones, obstacle courses and Aeroball. Separate soft play areas for infants and older children offer a glow ball pool, tree house, glow room, slides, climb and balance beams, as well as interactive cardio walls and crawl tubes. A total of 11 shipping containers were used


to create a briefing area, party rooms, café and toilets. A mezzanine floor provides seating for cafe users and spectator viewing, whilst outside there is also seating and external access to the cafe. As part of a planning condition to reduce the


carbon footprint of the park and its visitors, Createability has also developed a designated cycle trail for locals.


Fourth new leisure centre opens in Birmingham


A new leisure centre has opened in Birmingham, the last of four new builds funded by Birmingham City Council and Sport England as part the 15-year Birmingham Community Leisure Trust (BCLT) contract signed in 2015. The £8.5m leisure centre in Ladywood joins


new sites Erdington, Northfield and Stechford Leisure Centres, plus five other facilities currently operated by BCLT around the city. Facilities at the new centre include a 130-


station gym; a 25m, 8-lane competition standard pool and dedicated teaching pool with spectator area; sauna and steam room, as well as a café. Constructed by ISG, Ladywood Leisure


Centre has been designed to minimise life- cycle costs and support BCC’s push towards


more sustainable facilities, demonstrating the Council’s commitment to modernising its leisure infrastructure, while providing outstanding community leisure facilities, and driving increasing levels of participation. “Activity levels across England are rising and


facilities like Ladywood Leisure Centre, and the people who run them, have a key role to play in supporting more people than ever to gain the benefits from an active life,” says Charles Johnston, Sport England’s director of property. “Our aim at Sport England is to remove the


barriers people face in getting physically active or playing sport. With the support of National Lottery funding we want to ensure that everyone has access to places to get active that are right for them.”


Work underway in West Lothian on Scotland’s largest new district park


Work has started on a new 78-acre district park at Winchburgh in a contract worth £6m. The park forms part of a £1bn development comprising at least 3,450 new homes, schools, a new town centre and a new marina encircling the historic village of Winchburgh in West Lothian. An estimated 31,000 trees will be planted at Auldcathie District Park, which will include extensive meadows, woodland areas and wide open spaces for picnics and open play.


Further play areas have been incorporated to suit different age groups from young children to teens, including sensory play and large natural play areas, as well as an enclosed dog park. A café with public toilets will be located in


the centre of the park, with community growing areas and orchards nearby. The design also includes a 2.5km loop of accessible paths, which will connect with the Union Canal towpath, as well as a mountain bike track and fitness trails. Viewing areas on higher ground


affording long-range views across Winchburgh and to the Forth bridges beyond. More than 500 members of the Winchburgh community as well as 350 primary school pupils, were involved in a detailed consultation in 2018, contributing ideas and providing feedback on options for the design and layout of the park, which will become the town’s largest outdoor recreational venue. The first phase of the park is scheduled to open in spring 2021.


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