Get involved and have your say on the mix of facilities to be included as part of a replacement leisure facility on the site of the Great North Leisure Park.
We want to involve a wide range of residents and community groups to help us shape a new leisure centre that works for everyone.
Overview
Finchley Lido Leisure Centre, located at Great North Leisure Park (GNLP) was built in c.1995/96 and is operated by Better on behalf of London Borough of Barnet. The existing facility is ageing, and the condition of the building restricts its ability for the council to deliver wider aspirations to create a more active and healthy borough, whilst offering a full family friendly and inclusive experience.
Over the winter, we undertook a public engagement to understand users’ experience and gauge the public’s views on a potential refurbishment, redevelopment, or relocation of the existing Finchley Lido Leisure Centre to North Finchley Town Centre.
After considering the engagement findings and what you told us we have decided that the leisure centre will be replaced on the existing site of the Great North Leisure Park.
To help shape the mix of facilities to include on the site we are undertaking the next phase of community consultation.
This consultation will run alongside Regal London’s consultation on their wider plans for the Great North Leisure Park.
Your views are important to us
We welcome views from all our residents, as well as people who study, work, visit or have a business in the borough. We also welcome feedback from our partners, local organisations and community groups.
At the beginning of July 2023, we held a series of Community Conversation workshops with residents to begin to shape our understanding of the priorities for the new leisure centre and inform the development of this consultation survey. The findings from the workshops will be included in the feedback report.
How to have your say:
Below are various ways you can have your say, and we will be adding more opportunities and updates to this page, on how you can have your say throughout the summer.
Complete the online questionnaire
Please use this link to complete the online questionnaire by Friday 8 September 2023.
If you would like to request a paper questionnaire or another format please
- email sport@barnet.gov.uk
- telephone 020 8359 7199, or
- write to us at Finchley Lido Leisure Centre consultation, London Borough of Barnet, 2 Bristol Avenue, Colindale, London, NW9 4EW.
If you would like someone to help you complete the questionnaire, or need more information, please contact us using one of the above methods.
Attend a consultation meeting
Throughout the consultation we will also be running a series of other consultation open drop-in sessions for members of the community.
These drop-in sessions are open to the whole community and will take place at Finchley Lido Leisure Centre.
You are not required to register for these sessions, just come along to one on the following dates to find out more, and share your ideas and thoughts:
- Thursday 3 August 2023, from 1 - 4pm
- Saturday 12 August 2023, from 11am - 2pm
- Wednesday 30 August 2023 from 4 - 7pm
What happens after the consultation closes?
The consultation findings will help inform the basis of a report to be submitted to Cabinet in October 2023.
Other related consultations
Regal London are also currently consulting on the proposed masterplan for the whole Great North Leisure Park site; which indicates a plan for, the new leisure centre, a new residential development and other public amenities such as spaces and shops. Please click on the link above if you would like to submit a response to Regal London's consultation.
