{"id":395461,"date":"2026-01-28T18:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395461\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:43:10","slug":"flackwell-boxing-plans-padel-courts-in-wooburn-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395461\/","title":{"rendered":"Flackwell boxing plans padel courts in Wooburn move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Flackwell Boxing and Fitness has proposed to build a replacement facility for its classes, along with six doubles and two single courts and a car park off Whitepit Lane, Wooburn Green.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The proposed site is on the green belt in equestrian paddock land and a part of the wider garden of Kiln Cottage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The proposal states: &#8220;Flackwell Boxing and Fitness provide boxing and fitness to a rage of clientele including mixed adult classes, women only classes but primarily focus upon juniors and youth classes (9 \u2013 16 years old).&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucksfreepress.co.uk\/news\/25801624.cafe-opening-public-amid-housing-development-wycombe-offices\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Caf\u00e9 opening to public amid housing development in Wycombe offices<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It states that the advantages and benefits of boxing, especially as a form of physical and mental recreation is common knowledge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The club is currently based at Aries House, Flackwell Heath, but it is required to vacate and find alternative premises.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The plans state: &#8220;The proposal comprises a new 594.60 sq.m. portal frame barn style building to provide internal sport and recreation facilities specifically to accommodate Flackwell Boxing and Fitness who require replacement facilities along with 6 no. x double and 2 no. x single\/children\u2019s padel courts along with new entrance, car park and internal pedestrian pathways.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The facilities are set to include at least two standard sized boxing rings along with walkway of at least 2m to the perimeters, a boxing bag training area with 20 bags, gym equipment, changing rooms with showers and toilets, an entrance hallway and reception.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The proposal says: &#8220;The main boxing, training and gym area should be open plan and include sufficient working areas so training\/boxing can be carried out safely without impacting other people as well as carefully designed corridors between each equipment zone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;On the basis of up to 40 people along with 10 members of staff being the maximum capacity this equates to a floor area requirement of at least 595 sq.m.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucksfreepress.co.uk\/news\/25801951.avoid-area-warning-bucks-a-road-closed-amid-rain-ice-forecast\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Avoid the area&#8217; warning as Bucks A-road closed amid rain and ice forecast<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It notes that an area of managed woodland lies to the east of the site.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the spring of last year, April 2025, staff spoke out about fears that the gym would close amid business rate increases.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Following the withdrawal of their exemption and a rise in business rates, staff suggested the gym may not be able to stay open.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This came after Mark Russell, who runs the gym,\u00a0took to Facebook to say he was &#8220;absolutely fuming&#8221; about the situation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The post received over 300 positive reactions on the social media platform.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Following this, Mark\u00a0started a GoFundMe to support the gym, which\u00a0has received \u00a32,400 in donations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He took to Facebook again to say he was &#8220;overwhelmed with all the love and support&#8221; shown to the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flackwell Boxing and Fitness has proposed to build a replacement facility for its classes, along with six doubles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-395461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395461","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=395461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}