£450,000 new gym due to open at King Alfred leisure centre

6:33pm Tuesday 11th January 2011 in News By Emily Walker, Chief Reporter

A new gym is due to open at the King Alfred Leisure Centre, which was previously earmarked for demolition.

Brighton and Hove City Council has announced that the £450,000 gym will be the first part of £1.6 million of improvements at the centre in Kingsway, Hove.

The council promised to invest in the old building when redevelopment plans collapsed.

The gym has been created in the former cafe and will open on January 24.

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thevoiceofreason says...
7:58pm Tue 11 Jan 11

Hurrah, I shall be making use of it :-)

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ICantThinkOfAName says...
8:40pm Tue 11 Jan 11

I thought there was an existing gym there.

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I love Sussex says...
10:38pm Tue 11 Jan 11

It's about bloody time that place was re-developed. Only about 15 years overdue

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Hove Actually says...
11:05pm Tue 11 Jan 11

So there was never any other way of doing this other than having 800 boxes to sell with no parking but when that fell through low and behold we can afford a new gym....wonderful but it proves the councillors were Lying to us, again

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thevoiceofreason says...
11:16pm Tue 11 Jan 11

ICantThinkOfAName wrote:
I thought there was an existing gym there.
Yeah there is but this is a new one to replace it

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disrember says...
8:07am Wed 12 Jan 11

I think this had to be done in order for the centre to be handed over to new company to run it on 1st april (freedom leisure).

Shame no sauna or steam room, theres certainly the space for it.

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Asbo says...
8:34am Wed 12 Jan 11

I was a member of Cheetahs gym for a number of years. A "propper" working gym, unlike the other pathetic over priced so called fashionable health clubs that exist elsewhere! Looks like the King Alfred development saga is going to carry on for some time?

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notaconspiracy says...
1:05pm Wed 12 Jan 11

Is this a council-run gym? If so, that's great news if it means it'll be affirdable and 'pay as you go'.

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manag says...
1:48pm Wed 12 Jan 11

why are brighton and hove's facilities so poor? the k2 in crawley and the triangle in Burgess hill puts us to shame and yet we have 5 times the population of those towns. we should have national standard facilities , not crappy refurbishments of outdated dumps, all the council seem concerned with, is driving people out of the town, and penalising local businesses with sky high rates

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