Building work has begun this week on a new £1.6m health club and swimming pool on the outskirts of Burnham-On-Sea.
The first concrete piles have been driven into the ground at Home Farm Holiday Park as a team of builders starts the six-month costruction project.
Burnham-On-Sea.com was first to unveil the proposals for the two-storey health club last December, which is being built on land just off Stoddens Lane.
Park owner Steve Atkinson, pictured with foreman Nick Eyre at the site, told Burnham-On-Sea.com on Monday (June 2nd) he was “delighted” the project had got underway.
“We are very excited that the construction is now underway and beginning to take shape. The whole project is on schedule and we plan to open in January 2009.”
The centre – which will generate around 10 new jobs – will include a 13m x 15m swimming pool incorporating a 7m x 7m fun pool, a sauna, steam room and reception area, plus a fitness suite with running machines, gym equipment and a tanning area.
The complex will not be reserved exclusively for the park’s holidaymakers and will be open to the general public on a membership basis.
“We’ve been planning this for well over two years and are really pleased the buiding work is building underway,” added Mr Atkinson.
