From this week’s Galway City Tribune – Plans have been drawn up for a new watersports centre – including a state-of-the-art gym – on the banks of the River Corrib at NUI Galway.

University officials have submitted a planning application to Galway City Council for permission to build the new facility on a 1.4-acre site on what is known as the ‘Engineering Green’ adjacent to the Alice Perry Engineering building.

The development will include a clubhouse with reception and café, gym, ergometer training room, communications room, offices, equipment storage facilities, changing rooms and bathrooms, mother and baby room and drying room.

The proposal includes plans for a boatshed, two floating pontoons on the bank of the Corrib and a pedestrian and cyclist greenway along the Corrib linking to an existing footpath.

“The greenway will be fully incorporated and benefit from the new public realm created at the edge of the water,” the application reads.

(Photo: An architect’s impression of how the watersports centre would look from the Quincentenary Bridge).

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