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Kingsdown Sports Centre to be leased to private operator

By Rachel Sutherland  Sunday Mar 26, 2023

Bristol City Council officials have handed over Kingsdown Sports Centre to a private operator.

Elite Sports UK will manage, operate and maintain the sports centre on Portland Street from April 1.

According to Marvin Rees and council officials, Elite Sports UK has been chosen because of its ‘strong proposal which helps and develops community sport’ and its track record of ‘working well with local communities’.

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As part of the 25-year lease agreement, Kingsdown Sports Centre will be renamed ‘Elite Sports Centre Kingsdown’.

The changing of hands will bring in new gym equipment, including a new weights area, full body machines, resistance machines and new spin bikes.

In a recent blog on the mayor’s website, it assures people that prices will be kept at an ‘affordable’ rate.

The blog explains that, as part of the council’s leisure offer, it has invested in the centres across the city which ‘provide the highest footfall and the most impact for deprived communities’.

But Kingsdown Sports Centre has been removed from the council’s leisure services contract portfolio.

It reads: ‘After more than a decade of national austerity, the council cannot afford to do everything it might like to, and this means that we need to come up with new approaches to help ensure continued provision of fitness facilities across the city.’

Kingsdown Sports Centre will be renamed ‘Elite Sports Centre Kingsdown’ – photo: Martin Booth

A free open day is being held at the sports centre on Saturday, April 15 to showcase the new facilities at Kingsdown Sports Centre.

These changes are part of the council’s leisure facilities investment strategy, which is investing £8m across its leisure and swimming centres in the city.

Main photo: Martin Booth

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