Lee Valley Ice Centre Building, Olympic size ice rinks Images, LVRPA News
Lee Valley Ice Centre
10 Nov 2020
Lee Valley Ice Centre London News
Design: FaulknerBrowns, architects
Location: Lee Valley, south east England, UK

Plans by FaulknerBrowns for twin-pad Lee Valley Ice Centre approved
Plans submitted to Waltham Forest Council for London?s first ever Olympic-sized twin-pad ice centre, have received planning approval, pending second stage approval from the GLA.
Designed by FaulknerBrowns Architects on behalf of Lee Valley Regional Park Authority (LVRPA), the new £30 million venue will replace the existing single-pad Lee Valley Ice Centre which, after 36 years of use, is nearing the end of its operational life and struggling to meet demand. The facility will include two Olympic size ice rinks with capacity for 800 spectators, a gym and exercise studio, a multi-purpose studio and a café. The current Lee Valley Ice Centre is one of the most popular ice-skating venues in the UK accommodating around 279,000 visits a year from across London and the wider region. The new building will double the capacity to 557,000 visits per year and will expand the range of activities that can be run at the centre concurrently. This will be to the benefit of the community which will also be able to use the new venue as a base to explore the surrounding green spaces.

The site for the new ice centre forms part of the 26 mile-long Lee Valley Regional Park (LVRP). The park?s 10,000 acres comp...