Construction work starts on new swimming pool in Bretton creating 20 jobs
Construction work has started to build a new swimming pool in a warehouse in Peterborough.
The £700,000 facility is being created by Billie’s Fins Swim School at Coningsby Business Park, Stirling Way, Bretton and is expected to create up to 20 jobs.
It is expected that the swimming pool, which will be 18 metres long and six metres wide, will be open to swimmers next Spring.
Construction of the new pool began on Monday (December 8).
The owners of Billie’s Fins, which is an established swimming school and operates from pools at the Lime Academy in the Ortons, at the C of E Primary School in Eye and at Fleming Road, Pinchbeck, Spalding, signed contracts on December 5 this year on the Bretton buildiung.
A spokesperson said: “This will be the second independently owned swimming pool for the swim school, with their first at Pinchbeck which opened in 2020.
"The Bretton site will extend the Billie’s Fins portfolio of pools across the region to four.
She said that Billie’s Fins currently employs a team of 40 across its current sites and the new pool will create about 15 to 20 jobs.
Owner Billie Whyatt said: “As part of our ongoing expansion we’ve been searching for the right facility and location, and this site at Bretton offers great access and parking.
"We’re delighted to have started the build and excited to get open next Spring.”
Billie’s Fins was created by keen swimmer and swimming teacher Billie Whyatt in 2015 and works with Peterborough charity Little Miracles and the NHS.
Planning approval for the pool development in Bretton was obtained by Swim!, which was backed by Olympic medal winning swimmers Rebecca Adlington and Steve Parry, in January 2024.
But the company announced 16 months later that it would not be going ahead with the development.