Leigh Sports Village is the biggest investment in public sports, recreational and educational facilities in Wigan borough for many years and is transforming Leigh into one of the finest hubs of activity in the North West. Leigh Sports Village is aimed primarily at renewing and extending facilities for sport, physical activity, education, health and leisure to serve the whole community in Leigh and District.
The project has involved significant levels of regeneration and economic development, especially relative to education and leisure, and specifically provides much needed new college facilities for the town and district.
All of the town’s main sports clubs and their members will benefit from access to the new and enhanced facilities, as will the young people in Leigh’s primary, secondary and further education establishments.
New sporting and active leisure pathways have been created to ensure healthy, lively and active participation from the youngest to the oldest inhabitant of the district.
Sports spectators will benefit from the proposed new joint use stadium with the associated spectator stand for the new athletics track.
The provision of a Leigh Stadium Arena and surrounding facilities will provide a focal point for a range of sporting and cultural activities.
The £83M project includes:
- 11,000 capacity stadium home to Leigh Centurions Rugby Club and Blackburn Rovers Reserves.
- 3rd Generation floodlit grass and artificial pitches and a multi use games area.
- New Sports Pavilion.
- 400 metre running track with a covered sprinting facility and club house home to Leigh Harriers.
- Leigh sixth form college.
- Leigh Indoor Sports Centre, which includes a 25m pool, sports hall and Profiles gym.
- 135 bedroom hotel The Park Inn.
- Office space to let within the stadium.
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- Leisure and specialist retail facilities, restaurants and bars.
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