Hartsdown Leisure Centre

Construction phase Part 3 of 4

Because the construction phase stretched over six months CREATEABILITY worked with Thanet Leisureforce, the operating Trust, to sequence a programme of works that would minimise its impact on customers and revenue. To achieve this reception and the café were temporarily relocated but most areas remained open throughout. Warren Reeve, The Trust’s Operations Manager says “CREATEABILITY have been very helpful on site and managed to keep the operation running.

Only the sports hall and dry changing rooms had to be taken out of action but as soon as individual areas were finished they were reopened. The first of these was the sports hall, followed by reception and the cafe. The new activity areas, which have taken longest to complete, the fitness facilities including gym, studios and dry change and the children’s play section are on time and on budget for the final handover in early April... so far so good.

With any project of this size it is inevitable that issues will crop up as work progresses. Both parties have adopted a flexible approach so we have been able to deal with these amicably".