The chairman, Jim Hornsby welcomed members to the March meeting and introduced a new member Tony Walker who had moved to Bridlington from York.
After an excellent lunch at the Expanse Hotel the guest speaker was Adam Mainprize, who is the East Riding County Council’s Senior Facility Manager for Sport in Bridlington. Mr Mainprize spoke about the Leisure World replacement.
He began with a brief outline of the history of the Leisure World site, from boating lake and Bowling Green in 1930, Grand Pavilion in 1937 to Leisure World of 1973 and 1980.
He then explained the need to redevelop Leisure World because many structures were now incompatible for refurbishment, mainly 1970’s equipment was costly to maintain, the annual repair bill just for maintenance was prohibitive and the utility costs were £250000 annually. There was in addition a deficit on operation of £180000 annually added to a Sports Hall deficit of £34000. The total deficit is in excess of £1.1 million.
The new facility is badly needed and has been put on hold since 2004. The new building will be smaller but will have more facilities. There will be parking for 135 cars with an area of adjacent land for designated development. The building will contain a six lane, 25 metre licensed swimming pool, with a three entry ladder, inclined step and lift entry. There will be a 35m by 7m learner pool with a moveable floor to allow different uses. Other facilities include ‘Leisure Water’ with 2 giant slides 60 – 80 metres long, a water play park for fun activities, changing rooms on the same level as the pools, a health suite, a climbing wall and ‘clip climb’ training walls. Because of the design there will be less need of lifeguards and so costs will be reduced. There will be a cafe and viewing area with ‘any time’ use available. The facilities will also include a 6 court sports hall, 24m by 34m.
Upstairs will have a 150 seat viewing area, 2 squash courts with moveable wall, an exercise class studio, a 100 station gym, meeting and consulting rooms and staff rooms.
The council has set aside £17.2 million, Sport England has contributed £1.9 million and £1 million will come from the Coastal Communities Fund. The total estimated cost is about £20 million. Operational profit is forecast at £55000 per annum. There will be no price increases for local residents. Construction work is expected to begin in April/May 2014 and the new facility to be open by late 2015 or early 2016.
Mr Mainprize concluded an excellent presentation with a computerised mock up of the new building and all its impressive facilities. The number of questions and comments from members gave a good indication of the interest engendered by the speaker. The vote of thanks was given by David Vernon.
After an excellent lunch at the Expanse Hotel the guest speaker was Adam Mainprize, who is the East Riding County Council’s Senior Facility Manager for Sport in Bridlington. Mr Mainprize spoke about the Leisure World replacement.
He began with a brief outline of the history of the Leisure World site, from boating lake and Bowling Green in 1930, Grand Pavilion in 1937 to Leisure World of 1973 and 1980.
He then explained the need to redevelop Leisure World because many structures were now incompatible for refurbishment, mainly 1970’s equipment was costly to maintain, the annual repair bill just for maintenance was prohibitive and the utility costs were £250000 annually. There was in addition a deficit on operation of £180000 annually added to a Sports Hall deficit of £34000. The total deficit is in excess of £1.1 million.
The new facility is badly needed and has been put on hold since 2004. The new building will be smaller but will have more facilities. There will be parking for 135 cars with an area of adjacent land for designated development. The building will contain a six lane, 25 metre licensed swimming pool, with a three entry ladder, inclined step and lift entry. There will be a 35m by 7m learner pool with a moveable floor to allow different uses. Other facilities include ‘Leisure Water’ with 2 giant slides 60 – 80 metres long, a water play park for fun activities, changing rooms on the same level as the pools, a health suite, a climbing wall and ‘clip climb’ training walls. Because of the design there will be less need of lifeguards and so costs will be reduced. There will be a cafe and viewing area with ‘any time’ use available. The facilities will also include a 6 court sports hall, 24m by 34m.
Upstairs will have a 150 seat viewing area, 2 squash courts with moveable wall, an exercise class studio, a 100 station gym, meeting and consulting rooms and staff rooms.
The council has set aside £17.2 million, Sport England has contributed £1.9 million and £1 million will come from the Coastal Communities Fund. The total estimated cost is about £20 million. Operational profit is forecast at £55000 per annum. There will be no price increases for local residents. Construction work is expected to begin in April/May 2014 and the new facility to be open by late 2015 or early 2016.
Mr Mainprize concluded an excellent presentation with a computerised mock up of the new building and all its impressive facilities. The number of questions and comments from members gave a good indication of the interest engendered by the speaker. The vote of thanks was given by David Vernon.
Before the lunch Chairman Jim inducted new member Tony Walker to the Club.
Tony was a member of York Probus Club, and moved to Kingsgate with his wife Beatrice recently. He is a former Railway Signal Engineer based mainly at York.
Tony was a member of York Probus Club, and moved to Kingsgate with his wife Beatrice recently. He is a former Railway Signal Engineer based mainly at York.