Southampton community sports hub reaches milestone

Main contractor Morgan Sindall Construction and Southampton City Council have celebrated the topping out of the new Outdoor Sports Centre.

The £36 million project includes a large steel-framed main building that will accommodate tennis and netball courts, fitness suite, multi-purpose rooms, a café, offices and the main lobby and entrance.

The indoor areas will sit alongside the centre’s extensive outdoor facilities that include seven netball courts.

Cliff Kinch, Area Director for Morgan Sindall Construction in the South, said: “Seeing the structure now complete is a great development in the project – we’re one step closer to finishing this wonderful facility that will serve Southampton’s community for years to come.”

Councillor Toqeer Kataria, Cabinet Member for Leisure and Communities at Southampton City Council, added: “This is a really exciting milestone for the Outdoor Sports Centre regeneration. This is a welcoming, flexible space that brings people together through sport, wellbeing and everyday community use, while also supporting our Greener Southampton City Plan goals.”

Snashall Steel Fabrications were the project’s steelwork contractor.