Community centre to get further makeover

7:17am Thursday 4th September 2008

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A COMMUNITY centre in Southampton is to be further spruced up with a revamped multi-use games area, theatre and visual arts facility, new solar panels and improved insulation.

The city council agreed to splash £750,000 more on Freemantle Community Centre after last year ordering refurbishments and extensions to make it more disability-friendly.

A further £950,000 will be earmarked to be spent on similar work at Woolston Community Centre as the final phase of the council's day services modernisation programme. The first phase saw the opening of Nutfield Nursery in Millbrook and a revamp of St Denys Community Centre.

Freemantle ward councillor Jeremy Moulton said: "I spent Saturday at St Denys Community Centre for their family fun day. It's at the heart of the local community and if we can achieve the same thing in Freemantle this will be tremendous."

The latest improvements will be funded by a £750,000 Learning Skills Council grant, plus cash from the £2.5m sale of the Brookside Centre in Auckland Road, and £490,000 to come from the sale of Prospect House.