A proposal to close the current Bridge Park Community Leisure Centre will be discussed by Brent Council’s Cabinet on Monday (16 June).
If approved, the current Bridge Park Community Leisure Centre in Stonebridge, will permanently close its doors on Thursday 31 July. The proposed closure will allow plans to provide a new leisure centre, adult education space and modern community facilities that better meets the needs of the local community to take a new step forward.
The redevelopment of Bridge Park is part of a wider masterplan to radically transform the local area, which could unlock £600 million of investment along the Hillside corridor in Stonebridge over the coming years.
The current leisure centre is based in a converted bus garage and its condition has deteriorated and now requires very substantial capital investment to keep the site open and safe on a sustainable basis. Major and expensive works to the lifts, roof and other key parts of the building would be needed. The report before Cabinet therefore argues that this expense would not be a sensible use of limited council funding, particularly when there are proposals to build a new and larger, state-of-the-art centre for the community to use for years to come.