Major demolition work to make way for a new state-of-the-art leisure centre in Newcastle should start soon.
It is hoped that a new complex in West Denton will be completed by the end of next year, boasting a new swimming pool, sports hall and library. The facility, mostly funded by a successful bid to the Government’s Levelling Up Fund (LUF), will restore swimming provision to a part of the city that has been without it since the existing Outer West Pool was shut at the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020.
There have been concerns about the deliverability of the project, given that its expected costs have already spiralled from an original £22.3m to £26m and its opening date pushed back, though Newcastle City Council chiefs have insisted that it will be built. Civic centre bosses have now confirmed a timescale for the big changes that people in West Denton can expect to see over the next few months.
