Beverley Leisure Centre To Be Expanded

Work will start in May on a new gym for Beverley Leisure Centre, funded by East Riding of Yorkshire Council. The state-of-the-art facility will double in size, to around 90 stations, and will offer a selection of high tech resistance and cardiovascular equipment, as well as a purpose built spin cycle room.

The new gym will be located on the existing car park to the rear of the building. Work has already been completed to create an extra 48 parking spaces at the Complex, giving a new total of 174 spaces, along with four new cycle shelters giving space for 40 bikes, and external seating. During the building works, there will be a temporary reduction of 12 car parking spaces, but after completion of the new gym, the car park will be extended further, to provide 48 more spaces. These are additional to the 48 extra spaces put in last year.

The existing gym at the complex will be converted into a dance studio. Work is expected to take around eight months to complete, and it is hoped to complete the new gym early in 2015. .

Councillor Richard Burton, portfolio holder for civic wellbeing and culture, said:

“I am absolutely delighted that the council is able to fund this new gym, which will transform an already very popular facility into a state-of-the-art gym with a great deal more space available, and even more modern equipment. It will help us to deliver our ‘Live Well’ programmes for East Riding residents, and will be a gym that Beverley residents can be proud of.

“Our customers highlighted the smallness of the existing gym and the need for more car parking and we are pleased to be responding with these improvements.”

The council is reassuring customers of the Leisure Complex that disruption during the building works will be kept to an absolute minimum and that the Tone Zone fitness suite will not close at any stage. Classes such as pilates and yoga will still be held in the function room, and larger circuit classes will take place in the sports hall.

The new gym, together with the car parking extension and other improvements, represent a £1.2 million investment in further improving and developing Beverley Leisure Centre.