Plymouth Life Centre

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Plymouth Life Centre

The Plymouth Life Centre is a leisure centre in Central Park, Plymouth run by Everyone Active in partnership with Plymouth City Council. Its facilities include a family leisure pool, a climbing wall, an eight-lane indoor bowls centre, fitness suite, a 10 lane 50-metre Olympic standard swimming pool, an Olympic standard diving pool, along with dryside training facilities, a sauna, a steam room, showers and a multipurpose area for dance and martial arts.[1] It is currently the only 12 court multipurpose sports hall in Devon. The climbing wall facility is managed by High Sports.[2] The aquatic facilities are the largest facility in southern England and were used by several teams training for the 2012 Olympics.[3] The Life Centre replaces the Mayflower Centre and Central Park Leisure Pools.[4] It opened in March 2012 at a cost of £46.5m.[5]

The Life Centre hosted the 2015 British Diving Championships, where local diver World Champion and Olympian Tom Daley won the British title on the 10m platform.

Following the announcement that gyms and leisure centres could open on 25 July 2020, after the UK's first national lockdown amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Plymouth City Council announced that following investigations by themselves and the contractors, Balfour Beatty, urgent repair work needed to be done to the building. This would include stripping the pool and changing rooms back to the base concrete and laying new waterproof layers. The Life Centre subsequently closed and would do so until April 2021 whilst work was undertaken. Due to the UK Government's road map out of the country's third lockdown, the Life Centre would not reopen to the public until 17 May.

Clubs[]

The centre is home to the Plymouth Life Centre Indoor Bowls Club,[6] and to .[7]

Sporting records[]

Ben Proud set the British 50 m freestyle record at Plymouth Life Centre in May 2014.[8]

Television appearances[]

Lotto: 2013.[9]

Splash: 2014

The 2015 British Gas Diving Championships (British Diving Championships)[10]

Architecture[]

The main contractor was Balfour Beatty, and the Architect was Archial.[11][12]

Usage[13]

The centre has won several awards:

  • Built in Quality Awards Awards, 2013 : 'Best Community Building'[14][15][16][17]
  • Michelmores Western Morning News Property Awards, 2013: 'Project valued at over £3million'
  • Institution of Civil Engineers, 2013: 'Major Project of the Year', 2013[18]

Gallery[]

Architects drawings were released in 2013.[19]

The cladding for the building is glass[20][21] using tiles[22] with stainless steel and staircases.[23] There is a flume, sauna steam room, showers[24] and drains.[25] Heating and low carbon technology were used.[26]

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 December 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) retrieved 8 April 2015
  2. ^ http://www.high-sports.co.uk/sites/plymouth/ Archived 16 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine retrieved on 8 April 2015
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 December 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) retrieved 8 April 2015
  4. ^ http://www.everyoneactive.com/Centre/Plymouth-Life-Centre/72/Facilities retrieved 19 October 2014
  5. ^ "Plymouth's £46.5m Life Centre opens". BBC News. 22 March 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  6. ^ http://www.plymouthlifecentreindoorbowlsclub.co.uk/ retrieved 6 April 2015
  7. ^ http://www.plymouthdiving.com/about-us/ Archived 28 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 8 April 2015
  8. ^ http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Proud-day-Proud-British-record-updated-Plymouth/story-21059534-detail/story.html retrieved 19 October 2014
  9. ^ http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Life-Centre-display-feature-Lotto/story-19952296-detail/story.html retrieved 19 October 2014
  10. ^ http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/diving/british-diving-champs-2014/ Archived 3 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 8 April 2015
  11. ^ http://paulwestonarchitect.co.uk/Content/pdfs/PW-SportAndLeisure-CV.pdf retrieved 19 October 2014
  12. ^ http://www.urbanrealm.com/news/2109/Archial_hope_to_make_a_splash_with_Plymouth_leisure_centre.html retrieved 19 October 2014
  13. ^ http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Life-Centre-s-ethos-help-people-make-changes/story-19568355-detail/story.html retrieved 19 October 2014[dead link]
  14. ^ http://www.labc.uk.com/south-west-building-excellence-awards-2013 retrieved 19 October 2014
  15. ^ http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/newsreleases?newsid%3D315648 retrieved 19 October 2014
  16. ^ http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/business/building-control-services/local-authority-building-control/built-in-quality-awards-2013/retrieved 19 October 2014
  17. ^ http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Plymouth-Life-Centre-honoured-awards-ceremony/story-19269663-detail/story.html retrieved 19 October 2014
  18. ^ http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/award-city-s-Life-Centre/story-19511282-detail/story.html retrieved 19 October 2014
  19. ^ http://www.stadia-magazine.com/news.php?NewsID=28144 retrieved 19 October 2014
  20. ^ http://www.sto.co.uk/en/projects/reference-details_40640.html retrieved 19 October 2014
  21. ^ http://www.buildingproducts.co.uk/features/external-envelope-rainscreen-test[permanent dead link] retrieved 19 October 2014
  22. ^ https://archive.is/20141220162229/http://www.stratatiles.co.uk/library/case-studies/play/plymouth-life-centre/. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  23. ^ http://paulwestonarchitect.co.uk/Content/pdfs/PW-SportAndLeisure-CV.pdf retrieved 19 October 2014
  24. ^ http://www.certikin.co.uk/pdf/plymouth.life.2012.pdf[permanent dead link] retrieved 19 October 2014
  25. ^ http://www.lanesfordrains.co.uk/blog/lanes-drains-wins-big-new-plymouth-life-centre/ retrieved 19 October 2014
  26. ^ http://www.vzdv.com/projects/the-life-centre-plymouth/retrieved[permanent dead link] 19 October 2014

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