Therme Group, the global wellbeing organisation and developer of some of the largest water-based attractions in the world, is driven by the belief that wellbeing should be accessible to all....
Attitudes towards fitness and leisure across the UK are changing. The COVID-19 pandemic saw people who had never owned a pair of trainers heading out for their daily walk and...
The UK is moving to the next phase of the COVID-19 response, with more buildings reopening and welcoming staff and visitors through their doors – albeit with strict social distancing...
Hygiene standards in public spaces will be subject to unprecedented levels of scrutiny as the world emerges from the COVID-19 crisis. The retail and leisure sector was perhaps the hardest...
With tighter environmental goals to meet and a commitment to improving the health of local residents, East Cheshire Council turned to Combined Heat and Power (CHP) to improve the efficiency...
As the UK Leisure Framework, owned by Denbighshire Council and Managed by Denbighshire Leisure, enters its fourth year, Jamie Groves, Managing Director at Denbighshire Leisure, reflects on its success....
Safety, security and durability were the key criteria when choosing the doors for Newcastle University’s impressive multi-million-pound new sports hall facility. With this in mind, Darlington Door Services – the...
Recently Manchester City Council took a step in the right direction by implementing ‘Martyn’s Law’, writes Peter Jackson, Managing Director at Jacksons Fencing. The new policy follows the Manchester Arena...
The design and specification of washrooms in public buildings need to consider the long-term operational performance of the whole building, its sustainability credentials, lifetime costs and customer approval ratings, amongst...
The Box is the largest multi-disciplinary arts and heritage space opening anywhere in the UK next year and the biggest in the South West of England. Originally three separate buildings,...
Abbeycroft Leisure, working in Partnership with Alliance Leisure, has achieved an incredible leisure centre makeover in Suffolk....
Work has finished on Newquay Trampoline and Play Park, a unique, urban, £3m trampoline park and indoor play centre, constructed with a series of shipping containers....
The Sapphire Ice & Leisure Centre in Romford, Essex, closed its doors to the public in 2013. Five years later, in spring 2018, the centre reopened as a striking development,...
In an impressive feat of construction engineering, a 25m swimming pool and spa has been built within the existing structure of a sports hall....
With grassroots sports and leisure facilities playing an increasingly vital role in boosting wellbeing and developing sporting capability and talent across the UK, creating spaces which respond to requirements and...
Children are being increasingly micro-monitored throughout their youth. Is this approach to protecting our children actually resulting in lifelong disadvantages? Lilly Elbra from Timberplay explores the issues....
Daniel Leigh, Frameworks Project Manager at construction services company ISG, discusses the revolution taking place in public sector leisure provision....
The leisure sector may be thriving, but it is also facing a number of difficulties. Sam Spencer, Leisure Expert and Associate at Bruton Knowles, reviews these challenges, asking can the...
A £2m masterplan for the regeneration of Brooklands Park in Worthing, West Sussex, has begun with the renovation of its central lake, which is a large balancing pond serving a...
