Portway Lifestyle Centre
Portway Lifestyle Centre is a new leisure facility for Sandwell, “a vibrant, unique sports, health and well-being centre for the whole community”.
Sandwell Council in partnership with Sandwell Leisure Trust, Sandwell Primary Care Trust, and Sandwell Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) Company plan to re-develop the existing Oldbury Leisure Centre into a new health, well being and leisure facility.
Sandwell LIFT Company is a public private partneship set up to modernise health, social care and community premises across Sandwell. This project aims to provide choice, increase opportunities, and so will provide improved health and social well being for the community of Sandwell.
This brand new facility will be called Portway Lifestyle Centre and will include a sports hall, hydrotherapy pool, gym and weight area, dance studio, climbing wall, and cafeteria as well as a purpose-built site for a GP surgery, Tividale Family Practice. It will be open to everyone and will be a centre of excellence for people with disabilities and is currently due to open in summer 2011.
Vision - “Offering a vibrant, unique sports, health and well-being centre for the whole community”
The link below provides an exciting preview, 3D walkthrough, of this new facility, hosted by YouTube, featured on the Sandwell Council website.
Video of the new Portway Lifestyle Centre
Download an information brochure with details as featured on this page at the link below.
Brochure about the new Portway Lifestyle Centre
Latest News about the project
Find links to latest news and press releases about this project.
Express & Star feature 3D video preview
Innovation Award for NEW Lifestyle Centre
Institute for Sports, Parks and Leisure feature
NEW Portway Lifestyle Centre 3D model created
NEW Health, Well-being and Leisure Centre revealed
Key Project Partners
Here are links for the key delivery partners; Sandwell Adult Social Care, Sandwell Primary Care Trust, Sandwell Leisure Trust and Sandwell LIFT.
Get involved, ask questions and have your say
We welcome your views on our Chat Sandwell discussion forum or email further enquiries to; leisure@sandwell.gov.uk
You can also find out further details on the Reference Group and a list of organisations that have an interest in this exciting project here.
