Fitness push races on as South Ribble plans yet more council cash for leisure facilities

The authority is contemplating forking out £217,500 on work to enhance Fox Lane Sports and Social Club in Leyland and as much as £180,000 on upgrading altering rooms utilized by the general public at Penwortham Priory Academy.

Cabinet members will probably be requested on Wednesday to approve funding for each schemes as a part of the council’s ongoing Leisure Local programme which was launched in 2020.

And the council has revealed it’s also in discussions with Balshaw High School in Leyland about serving to to fund a brand new sports activities corridor – Balshaw is the one secondary faculty in South Ribble which at the moment doesn’t have one.

The proposed spending follows tens of millions of kilos already dedicated to bettering the borough’s leisure centres, a £300,000 challenge to construct a brand new group centre at Gregson Green, £300,000 on upgrading sports activities services at Lostock Hall Academy and a £250,000 allocation to a lot of group teams and sports activities golf equipment.

The council says the newest two schemes chosen for funding will “additional enhance South Ribble’s leisure supply.”

If authorised the Fox Lane Sports ands Social Club challenge would see the constructing of a alternative tennis pavilion.

It would additionally embody an improve of floodlights for tennis and bowling, repairs to pathways and the availability of recent benches across the bowling inexperienced,.

New disabled bogs can be supplied within the membership, with new fencing fitted in a part of the positioning, the re-roofing of the cricket pavilion, a brand new boiler for the membership and the refurbishment of the “tired-looking” inside of the bar, lounge and performance room.

In return the membership will contribute £35,000 in the direction of the refurbishments and £7.500 in the direction of the tennis pavilion.

A report back to the cupboard says: “Work will probably be carried out to treatment rapid well being and security considerations, sports activities services will probably be made extra engaging, accessible, and inclusive, and membership services will probably be improved to create new income technology alternatives.

“Fox Lane Sports and Social Club have demonstrated an urge for food to turn out to be extra group targeted.”

On the necessity for a brand new tennis pavilion, the report provides: “The present tennis altering facility is an previous static caravan. This is in poor situation and isn’t match for function.

“Further to this, no sports activities golf equipment throughout the positioning have altering services for females, creating an enormous barrier for feminine involvement.

“The new tennis pavilion will present the tennis membership with an area to get modified, retailer tools, and have refreshments, consequently making the membership extra engaging.

“The pavilion can even include separate female and male altering rooms, open to members from all sports activities golf equipment on the positioning. This reduces the boundaries for feminine participation within the sports activities golf equipment.”

At Priory Academy the present altering services and bogs utilized by the general public are stated to be “in pressing want of refurbishment.”

“These have turn out to be very run down, a lot under the usual of group leisure services, and should not match for group use,” says the council report.