{"id":6942,"date":"2025-07-31T06:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=6942"},"modified":"2025-07-31T06:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:46:56","slug":"construction-to-start-on-uks-first-floating-padel-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/construction-to-start-on-uks-first-floating-padel-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction to start on UK\u2019s first floating padel courts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Construction will start shortly after planners green lighted the UK\u2019s first floating padel tennis courts at Liverpool Waters.<\/p>\n

The development will feature three courts built on state-of-the-art floating platforms and the world\u2019s first floating clubhouse.<\/p>\n

Peel Waters, the team behind the Liverpool Waters regeneration scheme, has partnered with Finnish pioneer Ville Leisti of Floating Padel Oy, floating architecture specialists Bluet Floating Solutions, Padel Ventures founder Gareth Evans, and leisure designers Imagineering Global LLP.<\/p>\n

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The facility which was approved by Liverpool City Council will sit within Princes Dock at Liverpool Waters.<\/p>\n

The courts will be built on a special floating padel platform from Finland, with the courts themselves manufactured in Spain. Completion is estimated for mid-Autumn 2025.<\/p>\n

James Whittaker, Managing Director of Peel Waters, said: \u201cLiverpool Waters is leading the way in bringing innovative, world-class experiences to the UK. This new floating Padel facility will become a flagship destination for the sport and for waterside leisure in Britain.”<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/IqfN4tH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Construction will start shortly after planners green lighted the UK\u2019s first floating padel tennis courts at Liverpool Waters. The development will feature three courts built on state-of-the-art floating platforms and the world\u2019s first floating clubhouse. Peel Waters, the team behind the Liverpool Waters regeneration scheme, has partnered with Finnish pioneer Ville Leisti of Floating Padel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149,"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-6942","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\/6942","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=6942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions\/6943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}