Plans for a new £15 million leisure centre in Perth are still on track despite its designers going into administration.
S&P Architects have worked on a raft of projects, including the Olympic pool in London, where the likes of Michael Phelps and Missy Franklin won medals.
The firm also refurbished the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh and Gateshead International Athletics Stadium, but it plunged into the red and merged with AFL Architects to become AFLS+P last year.
AFLS+P insisted that S&P’s financial difficulties will not affect plans for the new leisure centre to be built in Perth. The new centre will be called Live Active Leisure Park and is set to replace the Dewars Centre and Perth Leisure Pool.
A spokesperson for S&P Architects said the company did not have permission to talk to the press about the situation.
However, Keith Ashton, director with AFLS+P, told The Courier the work with Perth Leisure Centre “remains unaffected”, with the same team involved in the project.
“We can confirm that S&P and AFL merged early last year and that, as part of that merger process, the old S&P company was put into administration,” he said.
A spokesperson for Live Active Leisure said: “This project is very much in its infancy and we look forward to the first stage, which is progressing the fundraising in the near future.
“AFLS+P is the appointed lead design team to develop the Perth Leisure Pool and Dewars site when the project begins.
“The project is entering a very exciting time over the next few months and we look forward to progressing the fundraising for this project in the near future.”
A spokesperson for Perth and Kinross Council said the local authority “remains committed” to providing £5 million of financial support to the project to construct a new Live Active Leisure Park to serve the area.preoch@thecourier.co.uk