Leisure Facilities Investment Strategy

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Overview

Bristol City Council owns nine leisure centres and swimming pools located across Bristol. The council also helps to fund the City of Bristol Gymnastics Centre, the Bristol Brunel Academy Fitness Suite and eight school leisure facilities that the public can use.

Bristol City Council has prepared a draft Leisure Facilities Investment Strategy, that sets out options for how we propose to invest in the city’s leisure facilities. Our proposed approach is to make improvements across the sites which serve the highest number of users and the areas of greatest deprivation.

In this consultation we are asking for your views on our draft Leisure Facilities Investment Strategy.

We describe why we are proposing investment at some facilities and why we propose to stop operating two other facilities. We ask for your views on this proposed approach. We describe the potential investments we could make at up to three facilities (Easton Leisure Centre, Horfield Leisure Centre, Bristol South Pool) and we ask you for your views on those.

  • Investment option 1: Easton Leisure Centre. Redesign within the current building footprint, with changes affecting the sports hall, gym and reception areas only. There would be no increase in the size of the current pool area. This option would provide a new and larger health and fitness suite, including a dedicated female-only area, and a reduction from a four-court sports hall to three courts. The ground floor would allow for additional flexible space for community use.
  • Investment option 2: Horfield Leisure Centre. It is proposed to further expand the fitness facilities through a two-storey extension to the fitness gym (up to 80 additional stations) and provision of two new group exercise studios.
  • Investment option 3: Bristol South Pool. A basic refurbishment which would provide some upgrades to machinery and general cosmetic and condition improvements to customer facing areas.

You can also tell us which leisure facilities you currently use and what things you value most in a leisure facility.

Your feedback will help us to consider if we need to make changes to the strategy. It will also help us to shape our procurement for a leisure centre operator and define the types of services we might specify during the procurement process when the current contract expires.

Please tell us what you think by Sunday 7 November 2021.

If you would like this consultation as a paper copy or in another language, braille, audio, large print, easy English, BSL video or CD rom or plain text, please contact us by emailing sport@bristol.gov.uk or calling 0117 92 23320.

Paper copies of the consultation are also available in libraries.

Overview

Bristol City Council owns nine leisure centres and swimming pools located across Bristol. The council also helps to fund the City of Bristol Gymnastics Centre, the Bristol Brunel Academy Fitness Suite and eight school leisure facilities that the public can use.

Bristol City Council has prepared a draft Leisure Facilities Investment Strategy, that sets out options for how we propose to invest in the city’s leisure facilities. Our proposed approach is to make improvements across the sites which serve the highest number of users and the areas of greatest deprivation.

In this consultation we are asking for your views on our draft Leisure Facilities Investment Strategy.

We describe why we are proposing investment at some facilities and why we propose to stop operating two other facilities. We ask for your views on this proposed approach. We describe the potential investments we could make at up to three facilities (Easton Leisure Centre, Horfield Leisure Centre, Bristol South Pool) and we ask you for your views on those.

  • Investment option 1: Easton Leisure Centre. Redesign within the current building footprint, with changes affecting the sports hall, gym and reception areas only. There would be no increase in the size of the current pool area. This option would provide a new and larger health and fitness suite, including a dedicated female-only area, and a reduction from a four-court sports hall to three courts. The ground floor would allow for additional flexible space for community use.
  • Investment option 2: Horfield Leisure Centre. It is proposed to further expand the fitness facilities through a two-storey extension to the fitness gym (up to 80 additional stations) and provision of two new group exercise studios.
  • Investment option 3: Bristol South Pool. A basic refurbishment which would provide some upgrades to machinery and general cosmetic and condition improvements to customer facing areas.

You can also tell us which leisure facilities you currently use and what things you value most in a leisure facility.

Your feedback will help us to consider if we need to make changes to the strategy. It will also help us to shape our procurement for a leisure centre operator and define the types of services we might specify during the procurement process when the current contract expires.

Please tell us what you think by Sunday 7 November 2021.

If you would like this consultation as a paper copy or in another language, braille, audio, large print, easy English, BSL video or CD rom or plain text, please contact us by emailing sport@bristol.gov.uk or calling 0117 92 23320.

Paper copies of the consultation are also available in libraries.

Consultation has concluded

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    We asked

    Bristol City Council owns nine leisure centres and swimming pools located across Bristol. The council also helps to fund the City of Bristol Gymnastics Centre, the Bristol Brunel Academy Fitness Suite and eight school leisure facilities that the public can use. The council prepared a draft Leisure Facilities Investment Strategy, setting out options for how we propose to invest in the city’s leisure facilities. Our proposed approach is to make improvements across the sites which serve the highest number of users and the areas of greatest deprivation.

    You said

    1,988 people responded to this consultation, the results of which are available in the consultation report.

    We did

    Following public consultation, cabinet was asked to consider the future operation of the council’s portfolio of leisure facilities with the aim of securing the long-term viability of the swimming pools and leisure centres for public use. It approved the Leisure Facilities Investment Strategy and the Active Communities Leisure Procurement Strategy.

    Cabinet noted that an expression of interest for a Community Asset Transfer (CAT) of the Jubilee Pool in Knowle has been received, which will be considered for progressing to the next stage and that the council has negotiated a 6-month extension of its current contract to allow time for any potential CAT process to be completed

    Through the public consultation several organisations have already informally expressed an interest in running Kingsdown Sports Centre, and cabinet approved that all necessary steps will be taken to find an alternative operator for the facility.

    As part of its investment strategy the council is committing a current investment contribution of up to £8m, with the aspiration to leverage further outside investment from potential future operators

    It is also proposed that as part of the Bristol Investment Strategy capital investment will be focused on elements of three strategic sites of Easton Leisure Centre, Horfield Leisure Centre and Bristol South Pool, which were subject to the leisure facilities investment public consultation.

    Part of the Bristol Leisure Investment Strategy and Procurement Strategy will contribute towards the vision for Bristol’s Sport and Physical Activity Strategy (2020-2025) which aims to ensure that all Bristol citizens have the encouragement, opportunity, and environment they need to lead active, healthy and fulfilling lives.