Plymouth Life Centre

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The Plymouth Life Centre is a leisure centre in Central Park, Plymouth, Devon, England, run by Plymouth Active Leisure (previously Everyone Active) in partnership with Plymouth City Council. Its facilities include a family leisure pool, a climbing wall, an eight-lane indoor bowls centre, fitness suite, a 10 lane 50-metre Olympic standard swimming pool, an Olympic standard diving pool, along with dryside training facilities, showers and a multipurpose area for dance and martial arts.^[1] It is currently the only 12 court multipurpose sports hall in Devon. The climbing wall facility is managed by High Sports.^[2] The aquatic facilities are the largest facility in southern England and were used by several teams training for the 2012 Olympics.^[3] The Life Centre replaces the Mayflower Centre and Central Park Leisure Pools. It opened in March 2012 at a cost of £46.5m.^[4]

Following the announcement that gyms and leisure centres could open on 25 July 2020, after the UK's first national lockdown amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Plymouth City Council announced that following investigations by themselves and the contractors, Balfour Beatty, urgent repair work needed to be done to the building. This would include stripping the pool and changing rooms back to the base concrete and laying new waterproof layers. The Life Centre subsequently closed and would do so until April 2021 whilst work was undertaken. Due to the UK Government's road map out of the country's third lockdown, the Life Centre would not reopen to the public until 17 May 2021.^[5]