Following a devastating fire at Kenwick Health and Leisure facility in October 2014, the replacement ClubSpa at Kenwick welcomed its first guests this summer. The £5 million refurbished spa in Lincolnshire has a stunning octagonal centre piece pool hall featuring a 20 x 8.5m pool with additional baby and learner sections and a 5 x […]
Commercial Swimming Pools
News updates from the commercial swimming pools sector, including local authority pools, health club pools, hotel pools, school pools, holiday park pools and water parks.
A new £7.5million leisure centre has opened in Tewkesbury to replace the ageing Cascades Leisure Centre. The new Tewkesbury Leisure Centre includes a main five lane, 25m pool, a 20m learner pool and a range of splash water fun features. It also houses dry-side facilities including a 60-station gym, sauna and steam rooms, a flexible […]
Russia will soon be home to the world’s largest indoor waterpark, which is due to open next April. Plans for the futuristic Tyumen Waterpark in Zarechny, include large translucent domes overhead to let in the sun with wide expanses of curved glass to hold back glacial gales. Polin Waterparks will be working with local investment […]
A new £25m state-of-the-art leisure centre in Bridlington was officially opened by a trio of sporting celebrities earlier this summer.Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington OBE; badminton player Gail Emms MBE and footballer Dean Windass cut the ribbon on East Riding Leisure Bridlington, which has already attracted more than 50,000 visitors since it opened at the end […]
Young swimmers are enjoying the new play equipment and revamped swimming facilities at Carnival Pool & Fitness in Wokingham in Berkshire, following a £140,000 refurbishment. The children’s beach pool was at the heart of the redevelopment project and now has new interactive play features such as a water slide, tipping buckets, cannons and water jets. […]
Always looking to raise the leisure management bar, Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) is pulling out all the stops to increase its number of customer visits to 44 million this year – up by four million on 2015 figures. Not only that, the trust is also investing in the refurbishment of aquatics facilities at at least […]
Featuring the UK’s first interactive water slide, the newly refurbished North Kesteven Leisure Centre in Lincolnshire has proven to be a big hit with visitors since it opened in May this year. The refurbishment was undertaken by water leisure specialists World Leisure UK and consisted of a new 45m flume and a bespoke Magna Carta […]
Work has begun on the rebuild of Erdington Leisure Centre in Birmingham – the first of three centres across the city to be replaced by Birmingham Community Leisure Trust (BCLT). The £8m development at Erdington will feature a 25m swimming pool, a teaching pool and is part of a £40m investment to improve leisure and […]
Sport and Leisure Management (SLM) has taken over the running of Westminster City Council’s eight sports and leisure centres. The company, which is known to consumers as Everyone Active, will manage Jubilee, Little Venice, Marshall Street, Paddington Recreation Ground, Porchester Centre, Queen Mother and Seymour Sports Centres. It will also take over the management of […]
A new community-driven campaign to breathe new life into Peckham Lido has been given a £10,000 boost by Southwark Council. The Peckham Lido, to the north of Peckham Rye, fell into disrepair in the 1980s and was largely demolished, but the new campaign has captured the community’s imagination with plans to build a 50m swimming […]
