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Aug 2022
Council set to carry out ground stability work at Ripon Leisure Centre
Ground stability work is set to start underneath Ripon Leisure Centre and could take a year to complete.
The project comes as an investigation was carried out following the discovery of a void beneath the original leisure centre in 2020.
Harrogate Borough Council said the void is understood to have been “present for a number of years and was only discovered when the reinforced concrete slab, which provides the foundation for the new swimming pool, was cast".
Senior Harrogate borough councillors will be recommended to approve the stability work at a cabinet meeting on August 17.
If approved, work will start on the project in the autumn but could take a year to complete - meaning it will be finished after the council is abolished.
The first floor of the original leisure centre will reopen once the work is complete.
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Cllr Stanley Lumley, Harrogate Borough Council's cabinet member for culture, tourism and sport, and chair of the board of directors at Brimhams Active, said:
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