{"id":4878,"date":"2019-04-11T07:40:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T07:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=4878"},"modified":"2019-04-11T07:40:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T07:40:16","slug":"green-light-for-60m-commonwealth-games-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/green-light-for-60m-commonwealth-games-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Green light for \u00a360m Commonwealth Games pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A \u00a360m aquatic centre which will host events for the 2022 Commonwealth Games has been given the final go-ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Wates is tipped to deliver the project and if confirmed would start work on the new Smethwick aquatic centre at a site in Londonderry Playing Fields this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Officials aim to open it in 2021 and say it will host all swimming and diving events in the Games.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_317021\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0_MQ-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-317021 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0_MQ-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2454\" height=\"1227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloucester-based architect Robert Limbrick has designed the new centre with Arup as structural and building services consultant<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The designs feature a 50m Olympic-sized competition swimming pool, a 25m diving pool and a studio pool along with 1,000 spectator seats.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed centre \u2013 to be run by Sandwell Leisure Trust \u2013 will also have two activity studios, a 12-court sports hall, a 125-station gym, a 25-station women-only gym, an indoor cycling studio, a sauna\/steam room and a caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0_MQ-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-317018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/0_MQ-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2454\" height=\"1227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The total \u00a360m cost of building the new centre would be met by various organisations involved in delivering the Commonwealth Games 2022, including the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, Sandwell Council and Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership.<\/p>\n<p>from Construction Enquirer http:\/\/bit.ly\/2IlRp8K<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u00a360m aquatic centre which will host events for the 2022 Commonwealth Games has been given the final go-ahead. Wates is tipped to deliver the project and if confirmed would start work on the new Smethwick aquatic centre at a site in Londonderry Playing Fields this summer. Officials aim to open it in 2021 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-4878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4879,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions\/4879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}