THE OASIS Leisure Centre has featured on a list of at-risk heritage buildings. The Twentieth Century Society, which promotes and protects buildings constructed in the last century, described the 1980s landmark as a building of national significance. The Swindon leisure centre, which it was announced last year would not reopen after lockdown measures were eased, is one of 10 buildings to feature on the The society said of the Oasis: “It is a rare and important survivor of a group of municipal leisure centres developed in England through the 1960s to 80s which marked a shift away from sporting facilities for competition, towards mass leisure facilities which could be enjoyed together by families, with activities undertaken for fun rather than for training.”
What next for The Lawns site at Cottingham set to go on sale
It was closed by the university in 2019 (Image: Simon Renilson/Hull Daily Mail)
A charity campaigning to save threatened 20th century British buildings has included The Lawns, the former University of Hull halls of residence, in its latest top ten “at risk” list.
The Twentieth Century Society (C20) aims to save outstanding buildings and examples of design that have helped shape the British landscape since 1914 and has today released its Top 10 Buildings at Risk List 2021, which places The Lawns, at Cottingham, in fourth place.
The university closed The Lawns in 2019 and the 40-acre site has now been earmarked for housing and is being put up for sale this month.
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Is this building the best post-war example in Derbyshire? (Image: Derby Telegraph)
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A leading architectural historian has told a national newspaper that Derby s Assembly Rooms is the most important post-war building in the county .