{"id":296982,"date":"2025-12-03T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296982\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:02:11","slug":"fakenham-pool-work-starts-at-norfolk-town-sports-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296982\/","title":{"rendered":"Fakenham pool work starts at Norfolk town sports centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 25 metre, four-lane facility will be located at Fakenham Sports and Fitness Centre on Trap Lane as part of an expansion on the site.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It will replace the pavilion that was previously home to Little Angels Pre-School, which has since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fakenhamtimes.co.uk\/news\/24780849.fakenham-nursery-moved-new-home-rugby-club\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">relocated to Fakenham Rugby Club<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fakenhamtimes.co.uk\/news\/25666525.pensthorpe-natural-park-records-first-wild-beaver-norfolk\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pensthorpe Natural Park records first wild beaver in Norfolk<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>It will replace the pavilion that was home to Little Angels Pre-School (Image: North Norfolk District Council)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Photographs posted to North Norfolk District Council&#8217;s Facebook page showed work was underway on the pool, which has been absent as a facility from Fakenham for more than a decade.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Everyone Active, operators of the centre, said it was &#8220;a long-awaited return of swimming amenity to the town&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The new pool will be 25 metres long and four lanes (Image: North Norfolk District Council)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In addition to the pool, the project also involves expanding the fitness facilities to include a 50-station gym and exercise studios.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The project is expected to cost around \u00a311 million, with most of the funding from government grants, including the Levelling Up Fund.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Work on the site is expected to finish by December 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 25 metre, four-lane facility will be located at Fakenham Sports and Fitness Centre on Trap Lane as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-296982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}