Thirteen developments coming to Sunderland

[Osklen]

Bollix, squash was busy, 5 a side got used. It was deliberately run down in the end. There is a need for similar place in sunderland. It would bring people into centre. Most people with kids go to Shields gor the pool n slides.

Squash courts have been taken out of David Lloyd apparently and replaced with a new gym concept - clearly whilst these things may look busy it must not provide a sufficient income to cover the running of it or high enough profit margin. On a bigger scale the same is true for indoors bowls.

The issue with the leisure centre is that it was so big that it probably cost a fortune to run the entire building with staff and operating costs which meant the whole of it was unviable not specific parts. The sports hall and gym may have been profitable but others not.

The pool whilst popular with kids was mainly busy at weekends and discounted and not busy at others times meaning it wouldn’t have been profitable. Traditional rectangular pools struggle to be profitable and are often subsidised by gym memberships. The same true with the ice rink.

The issue in the main will have been if the facility was profitably enough to have been able to create a sinking fund to maintain the building. This may have been true in future years but perhaps not in the later years.

I used it for the five a side league right until the end and there was no one in ,we would go to the bar upstairs after ,empty

chicken and the egg as to people or funds went first
if somethings a big earner for the coffers you keep it going . Times changed ,i cant say i lioed going to the baths in 1976 it was just one of a few things available to kids

Exactly this. Do kids want to go to the swimming baths when they can play on a PS4 or iPad. Also there is a massive rise in kids now playing sport from a much younger age (particularly football) therefore weekends are taken up with that.

 

[JAZZMANB]

Squash courts have been taken out of David Lloyd apparently and replaced with a new gym concept - clearly whilst these things may look busy it must not provide a sufficient income to cover the running of it or high enough profit margin. On a bigger scale the same is true for indoors bowls.




Exactly this. Do kids want to go to the swimming baths when they can play on a PS4 or iPad. Also there is a massive rise in kids now playing sport from a much younger age (particularly football) therefore weekends are taken up with that.

Good last point which also matches the rise in parents intervention in kids younger years .We got pushed out with 10p for the day now its dance classes and horseriding and judo and football etc