£23m leisure centre takes shape

The final beam has been installed at the new Splashes Leisure Centre in Rainham

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00:00 This is a site which sadly had a bit of a history to it, where some of the ceiling fell

00:04 in, the building had to be demolished and what we've done now here really is picked

00:08 up with the redevelopment of the whole site.

00:11 The whole pool has been redeveloped, new buildings come in place and what we have here now is

00:15 an exciting project for the future.

00:18 Just a little bit of history, my own children learnt to swim here many years ago so to see

00:21 it back on its feet is very exciting indeed.

00:24 What we've got here is a site which is kind of how we should be building things for the

00:27 future now.

00:28 What we've got is massive thermal efficiency to reduce the cost of heating the building,

00:33 we've got solar panels all over the roof now, a lot more than the original design.

00:36 As I say, my area of work with the council is climate change so we wanted a lot more

00:42 solar energy on the site and as a result of that we're saving about 19,000kg of carbon

00:48 a year from the site which is amazing news and in addition to that the benefit is the

00:52 costs are a lot less, about £30,000 a year less than we would normally be spending on

00:56 a site like this in an annual budget so it's all good news really in that respect.

01:01 We're next to the site continuing the building programme, getting it up and running, a lot

01:04 more work as you can see, we're in the gym area at the moment, there's no walls but they'll

01:08 be coming.

01:09 Electric charging in the car park is going in, stuff like that and obviously the final

01:13 details of the pool.

01:14 Hoping to open by next June/July time at the end of the school term, ready for the summer

01:19 holidays and the place will be heaving with families and children having a fantastic time.