{"id":45384,"date":"2026-04-29T10:28:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=45384"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:47:04","slug":"ground-broken-for-20-million-newcastle-leisure-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/ground-broken-for-20-million-newcastle-leisure-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground broken for \u00a320 million Newcastle leisure centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Newcastle260430.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Newcastle260430.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Newcastle260430.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Newcastle260430-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Working on behalf of Newcastle City Council, Morgan Sindall Construction North East has started work on a community facility that will serve as a hub for sport, health, and local services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Procured via the Pagabo framework, the Outer West <a href=\"https:\/\/steelconstruction.info\/Leisure_buildings#Indoor_arenas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leisure Centre<\/a> will house two swimming pools with movable floors, a competition pool, splash pad, training pools, sauna and steam room, sports hall, library, gym, and <a href=\"https:\/\/steelconstruction.info\/Multi-storey_office_buildings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">offices<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newcastle City Council Director of Public Health, Alice Wiseman, said: \u201cI am incredibly excited that work has started on the leisure centre and swimming pool at West Denton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt will offer residents first-class health and leisure facilities as well as a new library substantially improving their quality of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s taken a lot of hard work and some dedicated partnership working to get to this stage, but I am thrilled that Morgan Sindall has now commenced the <a href=\"https:\/\/steelconstruction.info\/Construction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">construction<\/a> phase and I look forward with hope and optimism that the centre will be completed in late 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working on behalf of Newcastle City Council, Morgan Sindall Construction North East has started work on a community facility that will serve as a hub for sport, health, and local services. Procured via the Pagabo framework, the Outer West Leisure Centre will house two swimming pools with movable floors, a competition pool, splash pad, training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Newcastle260430.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-bO0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45386,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45384\/revisions\/45386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}