New pay-as-you-go gym plan for Sundorne, Shrewsbury
Monday 13th September 2010, 10:39AM BST.
A pay-as-you-go gym is to be created at the multi-million pound Shrewsbury Sports Village, council leisure chiefs said today.
It is expected to open in the next few months after work is completed.
Work is needed to convert a meeting room and office space into a facility featuring running and bike machines and weights.
Councillor Steve Charmley, Shropshire Council’s cabinet member for leisure, said a need for the gym in the area had been identified and it would enhance the leisure provision available at the site in Sundorne.
Mr Charmley said it would not be a members-only gym and would operate in a similar way to the gyms at the Quarry Fitness and Leisure Centre in Shrewsbury and at Oswestry Leisure Centre.
“It should be going in there pretty soon and I think it is somewhere in the region of a 30 to 40-station gym replacing a meeting room and office space.”
He added: “We are getting quotes because there is going to be a bit of building work as we have got to knock down an internal wall between the meeting room and the offices. I hope the gym will be open in about three to four months.”
Mr Charmley said the council was still assessing options for the future of Shrewsbury’s Quarry pool.
He said a multi-million pound replacement swimming pool could be built at the sports village site as a replacement for the ageing town centre facility.
He said it was the “obvious” site to consider if an out-of-town replacement was the preferred choice.
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I’m assuming the need for a gym in the area specifically means a more affordable option seeing as the Welti is down the road (hence pay as you go perhaps?).
The Welti will be unhappy but pay as you go is more economical generally and as a member of the Welti I can’t say I wouldn’t be tempted to leave – I do not think it’s run very well.
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There’s already a Pay as you go gym at Studio One which is a stones throw from the Sports Village! A new swimming pool would be a much better way forward when there’s already a perfectly good gym available – and yes much cheaper than Welti!
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How can there be a need for gym when it’s next door to one and there’s already one at the end of the same road!
How much council tax money is being wasted on this when I thought we were meant to be cutting back?????
Has anyone asked local residents if there’s really a need to have another gym with in the same road!
This means 3 infact (Gymophobics/Studio One and Welti)) Has Mr Charmley asked anyone if they believe there’s a need? – bet not!
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