swimming centre news

North Herts District Council has entered into a ten-year partnership with Everyone Active to run five of its leisure centres from 1 April. The facilities ... More

Mark Braithwaite is to join Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council as chief operating officer. Braithwaite, formerly CEO of leisure management contracting firm 1Life, will start with ... More

A new £10m (€11,1m, US$13) wellbeing and swimming centre has opened at Cornwall’s only double five-star hotel – The Headland. Lilly Lewarne Architects designed the ... More

Glasgow Life, which runs leisure and culture facilities on behalf of Glasgow City Council, has said that it will begin opening its gyms and fitness ... More

Radionica Arhitekture (literally Architecture Workshop) have designed a swimming centre for the Dubrava District of Zagreb, Croatia, that is split into three large, glass, sunken ... More

A radical ring-shaped aquatic centre with wellness facilities and outdoor green space – designed by Andrew Burges Architects, Grimshaw Architects and McGregor Coxall – is ... More

Construction has commenced on the Quzhou Sports Campus, an ambitious project which is designed to resemble a craterous landscape not unlike the conical puys of ... More

Designs for a world-class aquatics centre have kicked off the race to get Birmingham ready for the Commonwealth Games in 2022. Existing sports facilities played ... More

Derby City Council has unveiled ambitious plans for a new swimming and leisure facility designed by international design practice FaulknerBrowns Architects and overseen by project ... More

One of Scotland’s most important national sports facilities reopened yesterday (30 August) following a £12m (US$15.5m, €13m) redevelopment, hailed as a “first of its kind” ... More

Joanne and Christian Wilson, the husband and wife team behind Little Splashers swim school in Warwickshire, are set to open a new Swim Works swim ... More

Sports and leisure operator Everyone Active is trialling a modular gym in Plymouth before deciding whether or not to provide gym users with a permanent ... More

A Wrexham leisure centre that was threatened with closure will remain open after local councillors agreed to pump £50,000 into the facility. Plas Madoc, which ... More

Danish architecture practice COBE have today (11 February) been named the winner of an international design competition to masterplan a new leisure district on an ... More

The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games has provided the Scottish economy with a £740m boost over the past eight years. The Post-Games Report, published by the ... More

Around eight per cent of people in the East End of Glasgow have taken up a new sport – or are spending more time playing ... More

The number of people in Dundee taking part in swimming has jumped 17.5 per cent, with the boom being attributed to the city’s £31m Olympia ... More

Fitness equipment supplier Technogym is to supply equipment to 26 sports and leisure facilities in Glasgow, UK. Technogym has secured a three-year supply contract with ... More

Fitness equipment supplier Technogym has secured a contract with Glasgow Life, which manages 26 sports and leisure facilities in the city on behalf of Glasgow ... More

Image: The awards are now in their second year The winners of the Members' Choice Health Club Awards for 2012 have been announced during an ... More

Residents of the Braintree District, keen to lead healthier lifestyles, look set to benefit from a £1 million investment into Council-owned sport and leisure facilities ... More

Image: The deal came into effect on 1 September Leisure facilities owned by Braintree District Council are to benefit from £1m of investment after Fusion ... More

Image: The roof will boast a 'sports landscape' Chinese design practice Bin Lu Architecture (BLUA) has completed work on a new urban concept masterplan for ... More