A NEW video has uncovered some of the secrets of Clydebank’s abandoned Playdrome leisure centre…more than three years after it closed.
The video, created by the “urban explorers” behind the Urbandoned channel on YouTube, lays bare the state of the building since it was vacated in March 2017 on the opening of the new Clydebank Leisure Centre.
It looks at the present-day condition of the main pool, water slides, river rapids, children’s training pool, sports hall, indoor bowling green and more, as well as examining some of the fire damage the building has suffered since its closure, most notably in May 2018.
The video doesn’t say when the unauthorised visit to the building took place, other than describing it as “the evening of a late summer day”.
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To watch the Play Drome video in full, click here.
Plans to sell the building, which opened in opened in 1994, for a retail development fell through in 2019, more than a year after a major fire damaged part of the property.
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West Dunbartonshire Council had agreed in 2016 to sell the land to Henry Boot Developments (HBD) for a new development combining retail units with car parking, a public square and a “pocket park”.
In December 2018 councillors heard how those plans could be modified to include housing.
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But in August of last year HBD pulled out of the proposed purchase, stating they had lost their two proposed “lead tenants” from the scheme.
In November 2019 councillors backed a recommendation from the authority’s officials that the Play Drome be demolished “as soon as possible”.
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