Victoria Leisure Centre - new centre will emerge after closure

In March last year, following an extensive exercise where residents were invited to tell us their views about the proposals and local campaigning, it was decided that instead of permanently closing the facility, the Council would commit to replacing the old centre with a new swimming pool, that would form part of the major redevelopment scheme for Sneinton Square and Eastside area.

Click here to read Councillor D Trimbles' column in the Nottingham Evening Post.

The Council has been collaborating with the Victoria Leisure Centre Working Group (comprising Nottingham City Councillors, the Save Victoria Baths campaign, the St Ann's and Dales Area Committee, local residents and representatives of other local groups) to develop plans for the new facility. 

The new centre, will provide a modern six-lane family swimming facility with separate teaching pool and a children's fun splash play area, a new café, fitness suite and health suites. The existing clock tower will be kept but the rest of the buildings will be replaced, creating a vibrant civic presence on Sneinton Market which is set to undergo its own transformation. 

Victoria Leisure Centre is now closed so work can start on developing a new modern facility to open in 2012.  See architects drawings of plans for the new centre down the right hand side of this page.

Victoria Leisure Centre customers are advised to use Portland Leisure Centre in The Meadows or the all new Djanogly Community Leisure Centre in Forest Fields  until their new facility is open.

The development will be the largest investment made so far from the City Council's Leisure Transformation programme and will lead to this part of the city having one of the best leisure centres in Nottingham. The new Victoria Leisure Centre has been an important catalyst in securing further investment in the area such as the regeneration of Sneinton Square, improving pedestrian connections between the area and the city centre and looking at potential development of Nottingham Creative Village nearby.