A combined leisure provision is a typical facility mix of swimming pool, sports hall and health and fitness facilities.
We have a suite of information covering combined leisure provision to help government officials, designers, community leaders, contractors and leisure operators, while focusing on affordability and future financial sustainability.
Alongside Swim England (formally the Amateur Swimming Association), we created the Affordable Sports Centres with Community 25m Pool Options guidance to help set out a planning process that will take project developers through the different design stages and ensure decisions are robust and based on local community needs.
Our short brochure summarises the key areas that are covered in in the main document and appendices.
The full guidance below gives design and capital cost options for combined affordable multi-sports centres, which include swimming pools, sports halls and health and fitness facilities in a range of sizes, as well as procurement advice, business and operating models.
It’s aimed at the early briefing and design stages of new projects and works to give a better understanding of:
Our Affordable Sports Centres guidance is a November 2017 update on the previous March 2015 version. These updates include changes to capital and revenue costs to Q4, 2017
There's also an additional appendix document that you can use alongside our main guidance. The appendices give greater in-depth analysis and additional commentary on the various sections covered and aim to clarify the technical and detailed subject areas covered. They contain information on:
Together with the supporting appendices, our Affordable Sports Centres guidance is an essential reference for new sports centre projects, or where the rationalisation of the existing sports centre stock is being considered.
This information, produced jointly with the Amateur Swimming Association, builds on our previous Affordable Centre models to now incorporate 50m swimming pool provision.
Our Affordable Sports Centres with Community 50m Pool Options guidance offers design and capital cost options for affordable multi-sports centres to include a 50m swimming pool, secondary pool options, sports halls and health and fitness facilities in a range of sizes. Procurement advice, business and operating models are also included.
Our short brochure summarises the key areas that are covered in more detail in the main document and appendices below.
There's also an appendix document that you can use alongside the main guidance, which has more information on:
