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Planning Application Submitted For New Manor Park Leisure Centre

11 January 2010

A detailed planning application for the new Manor Park Leisure Centre has been submitted by East Northamptonshire Council.

The proposed development by East Northamptonshire Council, working in partnership with Rushden Town Council, aims to provide residents with access to wet and dry leisure facilities in one purpose built building. The modern, energy efficient leisure centre is to be located at Manor Park and represents a £13m investment in the area’s sports, fitness and leisure facilities.


The application details how the leisure centre will provide:

  • 6-lane 25-metre swimming pool including a floating floor to facilitate aqua aerobics, group access for swimmers with a disability and teaching for smaller children. A separate submersible platform allows access for individual swimmers with a disability
  • Leisure water facilities including jets and fountains
  • 6-court sports hall that provides space for numerous sports including badminton, gymnastics, hockey, football, tennis and volleyball
  • Sauna and steam room
  • Café
  • Dance/ exercise studios
  • Health and Fitness suite
  • Flexible space for a crèche, theatre activities, community meetings and events

The application also provides detailed information on how the proposed development will be accommodated in Manor Park in relation to the facilities and activities of the Rushden and Higham Rugby Club. It is intended that the new leisure centre will replace existing facilities at the Splash Leisure Pool in Station Road and Pemberton Centre in H.E. Bates Way, which are in need of upgrading.

As a result, two key sites will be made available to kickstart the regeneration and development of Rushden and stimulate opportunities for major private sector investment.

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Formal planning consultation commences from Friday 8 January and will run until the end of January.  However comments can be accepted anytime up until the Development Control Committee considers the application, at a date still to be decided.  Information on committee dates can be found at www.east-northamptonshire.gov.uk/councilmeetings

A public exhibition of the plans will also be held over the same period at Splash, Pemberton, Rushden Centre, Stanwick Lakes and the Higham Ferrers, Irthlingborough and Raunds libraries.

Copies of the application form, plans and correspondence (including letters of support and/or objection) can be viewed either online at www.east-northamptonshire.gov.uk or at East Northamptonshire House, Cedar Drive, Thrapston and The Rushden Centre, Newton Road, Rushden

Residents who wish to comment on the application may do so in writing:
• Via the East Northamptonshire Council website at www.east-northamptonshire.gov.uk
• By e-mail to planningcomments@east-northamptonshire.gov.uk
• By post to Development Control, East Northamptonshire Council, Cedar   Drive, Thrapston, Northants, NN14 4LZ.
• By fax to 01832 734839

Following conclusion of the planning consultation period, the application will be considered at a meeting of the East Northamptonshire Development Control Committee, which members of the public are free to attend.  Even though it is the Council that is submitting the application, it is still legally required to consider the application itself, as the

The decision of the Development Control Committee will then be reviewed by the Government Office for the East Midlands (GOEM), which ensures national planning policies are applied within the region, and which will make the final decision on whether to approve the application.

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