The Sunderland Aquatic Centre

The £20m Sunderland Aquatic Centre developed by Sunderland City Council has already been earmarked as a potential training camp for the 2012 Olympics. It is the first 50m pool in the North East and the only one between Leeds and Edinburgh.

The opening followed a massive, free celebration featuring large-scale light projections, fireworks, outdoor theatre, dancers and imaginative special effects which attracted an audience of almost 5,000 people and a smaller indoor event showcasing the wealth of sporting talent including synchronized diving, synchronised swimming and aquabatics.

The Sunderland Aquatic Centre houses a competition-sized swimming pool, a 25m diving pool and a two-storey, state-of-the-art Wellness Centre.

It is also the most environmentally-friendly pool in the country – filtering and recycling every single drop of water which falls on its roof for re-use in the pool.

In addition its moveable floors, which can vary the water depth from anywhere between 0-2m in the main pool and 0-4m in the diving pool, make it as suitable for toddlers learning to swim as talented swimmers.

And the clever design of the building is such that the 50m main pool also has a moveable boom, which allows the pool to be divided up to cater for everything from aqua-fit and family fun with inflatables to budding Olympians – all at the same time.

The £20m Aquatic Centre is also be one of the most accessible swimming pools in the country, trailblazing the latest disabled accessible features which mean that everyone will be able to take advantage of its superb facilities.

It boasts a state of the art wellness centre, delivered in partnership with the city's Teaching Primary Care Trust, where people prescribed exercise by their GPs will be able to take advantage of some of the most advanced technogym equipment in the country, alongside regular gym users.

Sunderland Aquatic Centre has been funded by Sunderland City Council, Sport England, European Regional Development Fund, One NorthEast, TyneWear Partnership, Sunderland arc and the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund.

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