Leisure Centre - Demolition Starts
07 September 2011 by Hamst
Demolition work has started on the former Scunthorpe Leisure Centre on the towns Carlton Street.
THE 27-year-old leisure complex was closed in July has been replaced by the new £21m Pods Sports Academy on Ashby Road. North Lincolnshire Council had been in talks with interested parties over using the site for prime development and had hoped it would regenerate the town centre. The nearby multi-story car park also remains closed and fenced off to the public after structural defects were found, its future remains uncertain though it is thought it too may have to be demolished.
The council has revealed it will cost £232,000 to carry out the demolition work, which was revealed in their budget and will be incurred in the financial year 2011-12.
The Carlton Street centre was built at a cost of £3.5 million and was officially opened on 11th March 1984 by ex-Scunthorpe United and England football player Kevin Keegan.
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