Located in Woolwich town centre, the 12,800sq m, three-storey facility is set to become one of the country’s largest urban leisure centres when it opens in 2025.

The new leisure centre is a key part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s regeneration plans for Woolwich. Morgan Sindall Construction has worked closely with the Council to design and develop a centre that will provide the local community with opportunities to get more active, including people with disabilities and those with dementia. Due to the confined nature of the site, the Morgan Sindall team is delivering a stacked solution with sports hall, gym and cardio rooms on the upper floor. 

The new centre will include three swimming pools for various uses, wet changing facilities, spa and relaxation areas, two spin studios, two high-specification gym areas, a five-a-side 3G pitch, multi-use sports hall, two squash courts and Woolwich’s first indoor cricket facilities. 

The centre will also feature flexible and accessible community spaces, along with a commercial café, kitchen, creche and soft play area as well as two studios that will be linked to the neighbouring Tramshed theatre and community arts hub. The rooftop carries the planted green roof and 1,700sq m of photovoltaic (PV) panels to generate sustainable power for the leisure centre. The building is targeting a BREEAM Outstanding rating, which will make it only the second leisure centre in the country of this standard. 

The project team includes FaulknerBrowns Architects, Buro Happold Engineers, Hadron Consulting, property and construction consultants Gleeds and Van Zyl & de Villiers.