BOWLING ALLEY MOVES A STEP CLOSER; Developer delighted as contracts signed.Byline: DUNCAN GIBBONS Famous people named Gibbons include:
THE contracts to build and run Rugby's first ten-pin bowling Tenpin is also the name of a chain of ten-pin bowling complexes in the United Kingdom. For more information consult Megabowl Ten-pin bowling is a competitive sport in which a player (the "bowler") rolls a bowling ball down a wooden or "synthetic" (polyurethane) alley have been signed. And the development could now be up and running early next year. Developer Wilson-Bowden has asked leisure firm Number Ten to operate the planned 24-lane centre on the Junction One retail park in Leicester Road The Leicester Road Ground is a cricket stadium based in the town of Hinckley, Leicestershire. It has, in the past, been used by Leicestershire as an outground and has held 11 first class games in total. . It had been hoped to have all the necessary documents finalised two months ago, but the paperwork took longer than expected to complete. The bowling alley will be built on vacant land between the Esporta health club and the Cineworld multiplex See multiplexing. . Work is expected to start in the autumn with the opening due early next year. Will Robinson, of Wilson-Bowden, said: "It's all systems go. The necessary paperwork was signed just before Christmas. "We're delighted because it will create much more variety at Junction One. It will finish it off - we've already got shops, the cinema, the health club and restaurants. "There are a few things to do before building starts and if it opened this year I would be surprised. It's more likely to be early 2003." A bowling alley has been on Rugby's wish-list for years. A survey two years ago indicated that eight out of ten people wanted one. Brownsover ward councillor Alan Webb Alan Webb is the name of:
recreation facility facility, installation - a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility" in the town." CAPTION(S): WELCOME: Alan Webb |
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