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Campaigners at a previous rally calling on Kirkless Council to re-open Dewsbury Sports Centre.

‘Three years is enough’, say campaigners fighting to re-open sports centre

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Dewsbury Sports Centre.

Public meeting demanding reopening of town’s sports centre to be held

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Campaigners at Dewsbury Sports Centre

Council explores future of Dewsbury leisure after shutting sports centre

Dewsbury Sports Centre.

Campaign group calls on council to halt demolition of town’s leisure centre

The Sands Centre, Carlisle was closed on Friday and Saturday after the high winds caused damage to the canopy, which had been fitted as part of the RAAC replacement on the Sands’ auditorium roof.

Footage courtesy of cumbrianroofingsolutionsltd.com

Storm Eowyn batters temporary RAAC roof canopy on auditorium

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Campaigners have been calling for the re-opening of Dewsbury Sports Centre

Future of Dewsbury Sports Centre set to be decided at cabinet meeting next week

Dewsbury Sports Centre was closed in September 2023. The Save Dewsbury Sports Centre group - who are campaigning for the centre's re-opening - will be holding a public meeting on September 15 at Thornhill Lees Community Centre

Save Dewsbury Sports Centre campaign plans public meeting for September
A public meeting will take place later this month as the Save Dewsbury Sports Centre group continues to campaign to re-open the facility.
Catherine Gannon

Kirklees Council has said that Dewsbury Sports Centre is likely to remain closed in 2024 despite over 150 people gathering in the town at the weekend to “advocate the reopening of the dry side.”

Sports centre 'unlikely' to reopen in 2024 as campaigners rally in town

Swimmer Chris Cook, who won double gold for England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, has raised concerns over the closure of Dewsbury Sports Centre

Olympic swimmer backs calls for re-opening of Dewsbury Sports Centre

Attendees at the Stop the Closures public meeting on January 28 at the Thornhill Lees Community Centre.

Stop the Closures group steps up call for reopening of Dewsbury Sports Centre

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Mark Eastwood MP: Save our access to sport and leisure in Dewsbury

Dewsbury Sports Centre

Images show RAAC at Dewsbury Sports Centre which could 'fall down next week'

A general view of scaffolding at Balbardie Primary School on September 04, 2023 in Bathgate, Scotland, after its buildings were found to contain RAAC. Credit: Getty Images

Breaking 43 more schools found to have crumbly RAAC concrete

Heathrow airport said it was taking “remedial steps” to mitigate any safety risk due to RAAC.

Heathrow & Gatwick confirm presence of collapse-prone RAAC concrete

Dewsbury Sports Centre

Emergency closure of Dewsbury Sports Centre 'until further notice'

Batley Girls High School

Batley school is on list of places hit by crumbling concrete crisis

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