Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Centre’s gym on the move
BELL’S Sports Centre bosses are abandoning the Perth venue’s gym after it was trashed by flooding last year.
Live Active Leisure has told users it is moving the Bell’s fitness gear to the Dewars Centre.
The move means indoor bowling at the Dewars Centre will cease at the end of the current playing season to make way for the gym.
It is six months since the Bell’s centre was swamped after the Perth floodgates were left open during torrential rain.
And it comes as both venues are facing the threat of closure.
The Bell’s Centre, Dewars Centre and Perth Leisure Pool are all slated for the axe.
Perth and Kinross Council bosses want to scrap the three lossmaking venues and replace them with a single new sports centre.
A letter sent to Bell’s gym users makes reference to the “catastrophic flooding” and acknowledges how frustrating the last few months have been.
However, it also expresses excitement at the Dewars move and says the new arrangement will be better than before.
The message states: “This development will see the Strathearn Hall at Dewars transformed into a 100+ station fitness gym with a comprehensive range of cardio, resistance, strength and functional training equipment which we are confident will replicate, if not better, our previous offering at Bell’s Sports Centre that was proving extremely popular prior to the flooding.”
It goes on: “We hope to have these facilities operational by the summer of this year and the same dedicated instructor team are looking forward to welcoming you to our new facilities.”
Live Active Leisure previously transferred all of its fitness activities from Perth’s Rodney Pavilion to Bell’s in 2022.