{"id":800549,"date":"2026-10-12T20:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800549\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T20:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:58:11","slug":"new-swimming-pool-in-fakenham-taking-shape-ahead-of-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800549\/","title":{"rendered":"New swimming pool in Fakenham taking shape ahead of opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The facility is currently under construction as part of an expansion at the sports and fitness centre in Fakenham.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  North Norfolk District Council unanimously approved plans for the development in May 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The new facility will be 25 metres long and include four lanes (Image: NNDC)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Photos posted to the council&#8217;s Facebook page showed the latest progress being made on the site.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The pool structure is nearing completion, with the steel frame and roof installed as well as major concrete works under way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 25-metre, four-lane facility will mark the first time in more than a decade that swimming is available in Fakenham.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Photos posted by North Norfolk District Council showed the latest progress on the site (Image: NNDC)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It will cost around \u00a311m and feature new exercise studios, a 50-station gym, and a revamp of the fitness areas among other things.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An opening date was initially set for December, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fakenhamtimes.co.uk\/news\/26263871.opening-fakenham-swimming-pool-delayed-next-year\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">delivery issues relating to the Iran conflict<\/a> pushed this back by two months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Everyone Active, the operators of the centre, said the pool was &#8220;a long-awaited return of swimming amenity&#8221; in the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The facility is currently under construction as part of an expansion at the sports and fitness centre in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-800549","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\/800549","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=800549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}