A facility for everyone

The new leisure centre has been designed and built with accessibility in mind and features:

• Eleven dedicated accessible car parking spaces close to the building entrance
• Level access into the building through the main reception
• Automatic entry doors within the lobby area
• Clear circulation widths suitable for wheelchair users to key activity spaces
• Accessible toilets and accessible changing facilities on both floors
• Dedicated Changing Places room on the ground floor within the pool changing area
• Two lifts
• Stairs designed for ambulant disabled, with wheelchair refuges to be included at the head of the fire escape stair
• Wall, floor finishes, door edges and handles will have appropriate contrasting colours and tactile surfaces

The pool area includes:

• A ‘pool pod’ which allows for a safe and dignified entry into the water.  Watch a video of it in use at another pool 

• A pool side wheelchair for disabled users to transfer to (compatible with the pool pod).
• A dedicated wheelchair storage zone in the village change (where users can exchange their chair for the poolside chair)
• Shallow steps with a hand rail in to the shallow end of the pool
• Use of the pool pod as a lift
• Learner pool with moving floor
• Disabled and ambulant disabled users (depending on the severity of their disability) can change in the Changing Places room, or 1 of 3 disabled WC / Showers or in the ‘family cubicles’ which are sized to allow a wheelchair to turn.