Haringey Council invests £3.6m in leisure after insourcing

Haringey Council has invested £3.6m to improve facilities and equipment across its leisure provision in the 12 months since it took leisure services back in-house. Operations at three venues – Broadwater Farm Community Centre, Park Road Leisure Centre & Lido and Tottenham Green Leisure Centre – were insourced in October 2024 and the council says it inherited a “backlog of maintenance and repairs” at each.

Since services were brought back in-house, the council has added covers and installed new circulation pumps and pipework at the Park Road Lido to help conserve energy and make the site more sustainable. The improvements have resulted in savings of £35,000 in the yearly running costs of the Lido, while reducing the overall carbon emissions from its operation and making it more reliable.