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Mountbatten Centre redevelopment project

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Management arrangements

Parkwood Community Leisure are managing the Mountbatten Centre on behalf of Broadwater Leisure as part of a 25 year contract with Portsmouth City Council. Broadwater Leisure are responsible for the £20 million redevelopment of the centre. Work started on site on Monday 7th January 2008 and is due to be completed by the Summer of 2009.

The existing facilities will remain open during the building work.  There will be some disruption, but this will be kept to a minimum.

Parkwood Community Leisure are also be responsible for the management of ten other council-owned leisure sites in Portsmouth. The company have been set targets to get residents involved in leisure activities and will also be working to achieve national benchmarking and quality standards.

Works

The new 50-metre swimming pool and health and fitness facilities will be built to the west of the Mountbatten Centre's main building, on part of the existing car park. New car parking capacity will be created on both the west and east side of the centre to accommodate the increased usage.  Parkwood Community Leisure have also produced a Travel Plan to encourage more users to take Public Transport and other 'green' methods of transport.

The pool will include a submersible boom and a moveable floor to enable the pool to be set up in different configurations offering a variety of flexible programming opportunities.  The pool will be able to offer a complete diverse range of swimming activity - from fun sessions to synchronised swimming, lane swimming to aquarobics.

However, 85% of the time the new eight-lane pool will be available for community use including schools, children and other learners.  There will also be a 12.5m separate teaching pool.

2012

London 2012 have recognised the potential of the Mountbatten Centre and it will be included in the Pre-games training camp guide for the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games to be published in the summer of 2008.  It is hoped that one or more overseas teams will base themselves at the Mountbatten Centre in the run up to the 2012 Games.

Further information

The document below shows the proposed design concepts for the Mountbatten Centre Redevelopment. For more information or to join our mailing list, please email mountbatten@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.

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  Proposed design concepts  (0.26 MB)