December 4, 2012

A new leisure centre is set to open in Hinckley, Leicestershire by March 2015. The centre will feature a main 25m pool with six lanes and a learner pool. It will also house a sports hall with six badminton courts, a health and fitness facility with 100 stations, two dance studios / multi-purpose rooms, a climbing wall and a health suite.

The council is looking for an operator partner to design, build, operate and maintain (DBOM) the centre.

Council leader Stuart Bray said: “The current leisure centre is well-used but is coming to the end of its life and it’s more cost-effective to build a new one rather than constantly patching up the existing one. The plans for Argents Mead will include a large extension to the green space and the new centre must be designed to blend in sympathetically with the parkland setting.ā€

The current leisure centre, managed by SLM, will remain in operation until the new facility opens in 2015.