Sport plays a massive part in many of our lives, whether it’s going to watch your favourite football or rugby team each week, keeping fit with a game of tennis or squash, or enjoying the sociability of a round of golf or frame of snooker.
There are a number of developments currently in the pipeline that will improve the sporting facilities availably to Edinburgh – a few of them with eye-popping buildings.
Here are seven of the developments that will make the Capital even more of a sporting paradise in the coming months and years, as highlighted by website www.skyscrapercity.com.
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5. Pentland Trail Centre
The £3million Pentland Trail Centre, at Fairmilehead, is currently in the pre-planning phase. If approved it will create a 13 km mountain bike trail network in the Pentlands, along with a Trailhead Hub including a bike shop, hire & repair, cafe, and visitor facilities. There will also be a 2km woodland zipline course, an aerial ropes course, an alpine coaster, a pump track, an alpine water park, lodges, camping pods and pitches. Photo: HarrisonStevens
6. Destination Hillend
Due to be completed in 2023 at a cost of £13.8million, Desination Hillend will transform and expand the ski slope facility to add an aerial activity dome, a zipline, an alpine coaster, an upgrade of the freestyle jump slope, a new snowsports centre reception building and function space, a cafe, shops, glamping accommodation and a hotel. Photo: Destination Hillend
7. David Lloyd Health and Racquets Club
Planning chiefs have given the green light to the David Lloyd Health and Racquets Club in Shawfair, which will have indoor and outdoor pools, tennis courts, a sports hall, a gym, fitness studios, a spa and a cafe. Photo: Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson