Community Aspiration and a First Class Experience
Project Team– Willmott Dixon, Saunders Bosten Architects, Varsity Consulting, Couch Perry Wilkes, MLM Group
As part of East Herts District Councils’ investment in leisure, Grange Paddocks Leisure centre is being replaced. With a £22m investment in people’s health and wellbeing, the new leisure centre will provide a major public building of high design quality. Providing a broad range of indoor sports, recreational and leisure facilities.
The new leisure centre is built to the south of the old demolished centre. The proposed new facility also includes external works such as the relocation of some existing pitches, new landscaping and external seating areas, a new play area and the creation of a new all-weather 3G pitch and tennis courts.
There has been significant progress on site despite the pandemic. Dan Humphries, contract manager at Everyone Active, added; “This is another fantastic step towards welcoming the local community to our new centre. Grange Paddocks Leisure Centre will be pivotal in providing a wide range of facilities to the community and engaging people from all backgrounds in exercise.
In addition to the wet facilities, there is a gym with 130-150 stations (above), while solar panels, LED lighting triggered by sensors, a raft of recycling bins and dozens of cycle racks make the centre highly sustainable.
Throughout the centre, generous spaces have been designated for disabled toilets and fully-equipped changing rooms, and a lift ensures the whole building is accessible.
We’re delighted that this development won the region’s Best New Public Building at the LABC Regional Awards 2022!