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Part of £3.5m investments throughout the borough leisure centres
Five of Wandsworth’s leisure centres are to benefit from a multi-million pound programme of investment, it has been announced. The council will be funding £3.5 million worth of improvements and refurbishments at the Putney, Balham, Latchmere, Tooting and Wandle leisure and recreation centres as part of a new seven year management contract. The news comes shortly after £710,000 invested in new and improved facilities at the much-loved Tooting Common Lido was announced – including new space for workout and exercise classes plus new toilets and a first aid room. As part of the new contract arrangements, Putney's village change area will be modernised and a new sauna will be installed in the health suite. At Battersea’s Latchmere centre the fitness suite will be extended, the reception area will be upgraded and the dry changing rooms will be fully refurbished. Tooting Leisure Centre will see its village changing area fully refurbished, with improved lockers and changing cubicles, improvements to the health suite including the sauna and steam rooms, full refurbishment of the dry changing rooms and upgrades to the fitness suite and “spin studio”. And the Wandle will see remodelled and upgraded male and female changing rooms. Under the seven year contract, which was won after a full and open tendering process by Places for People Leisure Management Limited, formerly known as DC Leisure, the council will receive an income of £22m.
“We are very proud to have had such a long standing relationship with the Council and our success is a testimony to the efforts made by our staff in producing a high quality service assisted greatly by the significant capital investment the Council and PfPL has put into the facilities over the years. We look forward to working with the Council over the next seven years and seeing the benefits of the latest capital investment programme.”
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