Boasting the only retractable commercial pool roof in the UK, Aqua Vale Swimming & Fitness Centre is a popular hotspot for swimmers all year round. Based in the centre of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, the venue combines both indoor and outdoor facilities with a network of swimming pools that together offer a broad span of water activities to attract a large scope of visitors.
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The oldest surviving open-air swimming baths in the UK are set to be fully restored and reopened to the public, after years of neglect. Campaigners for the Grade II listed Cleveland Pools, a 200-year old Georgian lido in the historic city of Bath, secured funding of £4.1 million, including a development grant of £366,200 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
With some dealers reporting sales figures up by as much as 20 per cent; the home hot tub market is enjoying a much welcomed resurgence. Extended spells of warm weather have combined with improved economic stability to kick start sales.
Dartmouth Golf & Country Club’s £850,000 investment in a new spa has paid immediate dividends with the West Country resort reporting a 71 per cent increase in revenue compared to 2013. The popular resort has been inundated with enquiries from people eager to experience the new facilities since opening in the spring, with a further 23 per cent rise in walk-in customers for the new swimming pool.
A bit like the original Ford motor cars that were only available in black, swimming pool customers used to be able to choose any colour of pool finish they liked – as long as it was blue. Fast forward to today’s technicolour dreamcoat era and we have a customer that is truly spoilt for choice. A rainbow of colour options, materials, textures, patterns and images.
A bit like marmite, salt chlorination is a love it or loathe it concept for the UK pool and spa trades. While an estimated 90% of all Australian residential pools and half of new domestic pools in France and North America favour salt water chlorination, the British market share languishes at a mere one per cent.
A former Olympian and Commonwealth swimmer has launched a brand new swim school in Darlington, Country Durham. Double Commonwealth champion and British record holder Chris Cook, opened the Swim Buddies academy in September, after identifying a lack of swimming opportunities for children in the North East. Based at the Education Village, Swim Buddies caters for […]
Firefighters from Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service helped to fill the new swimming pool at Washington Leisure Centre in Sunderland, as part of regular crew training. The 25m pool, which is due to open next spring, was checked for being water tight by the fire fighters, before 15,000 tiles were cemented in.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Warwick-based Poolcare Leisure offers complete installation, maintenance and refurbishment solutions for its pool and spa clients across the country. With a vast client base extending from large local authority leisure centres, health club chains, schools, care homes and hospitals to smaller domestic pools, Poolcare Leisure has established itself as […]
As part of its annual education programme, for the first time next year, SPATEX the UK pool and spa exhibition, run for the industry, by the industry, is presenting a full day of specialist spa and hot tub workshops for both the commercial and domestic sectors. The dedicated day of spa and hot tub training […]
