{"id":72079,"date":"2020-02-19T12:21:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=72079"},"modified":"2020-02-19T12:21:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:21:32","slug":"tarka-leisure-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/tarka-leisure-centre\/72079\/","title":{"rendered":"Speller Metcalfe awarded \u00a314m Tarka Leisure Centre contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Parkwood Leisure has chosen <a href=\"https:\/\/spellermetcalfe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speller Metcalfe<\/a> as its main contractor for the new \u00a314m Tarka Leisure Centre in Barnstaple, Devon<\/h2>\n<p>The new Parkwood Leisure centre includes a 25m, eight-lane swimming pool and 20m trainer pool, both with moveable floors that allow the pools to reach up to 1.8m in depth.<\/p>\n<p>This will enable the leisure centre to provide fit-for-purpose lifeguard training facilities and accommodate additional sports such as water polo, funded in part by the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/funding-to-transform-coastal-communities-opens-for-bids\/38921\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Coastal Communities Fund<\/a> and National Lottery grants through Sport England<\/p>\n<p>The new centre, which has been designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/watsonbatty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watson Batty Architects,<\/a> will sit adjacent to Tarka Tennis and replace the outdated North Devon Leisure Centre on the Seven Brethren industrial estate, which has become unfit for purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the pools, a unique feature and draw for the centre will be its interactive \u2018endless ski slope\u2019 \u2013 the first of its kind for Devon \u2013 accommodating skiers, snowboarders and tobogganers, which will be built in a room that runs inside to out and will be fitted out by a specialist contractor.<\/p>\n<h3>Additional facilities<\/h3>\n<p>These include a four-court sports hall, gym, three fitness studios, indoor soft play, caf\u00e9 and reception area. Outside the centre, visitors will have ample parking on-site and be able to enjoy a children\u2019s play area.<\/p>\n<p>The project is due to complete in early 2022.<\/p>\n<h3>Provide both employment and increased visitor opportunities<\/h3>\n<p>Glen Hall, managing director of Parkwood Leisure, said: \u201cAfter a successful partnership working together on the brand new facility at Broughton Astley Leisure Centre we\u2019re delighted to be working with Speller Metcalfe again at Barnstaple Leisure Centre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s an exciting development and we\u2019re looking forward to seeing what we can achieve in providing state-of-the-art leisure facilities for the local community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rob Lashford, regional director for Speller Metcalfe, added: \u201cWith solid experience in the leisure sector, Speller Metcalfe is delighted to be delivering our second scheme for Parkwood Leisure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new site will not only be an improvement on the existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/ripons-leisure-centre\/69872\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leisure centre<\/a> but provide both employment and increased visitor opportunities for Barnstaple through the unique facilities on offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parkwood Leisure has chosen Speller Metcalfe as its main contractor for the new \u00a314m Tarka Leisure Centre in Barnstaple, Devon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[13038,24813,676,997,952,639],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-building","8":"tag-building-contracts","9":"tag-construction","10":"tag-development","11":"tag-planning","12":"tag-procurement"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Speller Metcalfe awarded \u00a314m Tarka Leisure Centre contract<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Parkwood Leisure has chosen Speller Metcalfe as its main contractor for the new \u00a314m Tarka Leisure Centre in Barnstaple, Devon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/tarka-leisure-centre\/72079\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Speller Metcalfe awarded \u00a314m Tarka Leisure Centre contract\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Parkwood Leisure has chosen Speller Metcalfe as its main contractor for the new \u00a314m Tarka Leisure Centre in Barnstaple, Devon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/tarka-leisure-centre\/72079\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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