{"id":751779,"date":"2026-02-09T02:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/751779\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T02:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:11:16","slug":"uk-gym-chain-david-lloyd-leisure-says-second-refusal-of-permission-for-swords-leisure-centre-will-cost-100-new-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/751779\/","title":{"rendered":"UK gym chain David Lloyd Leisure says second refusal of permission for Swords leisure centre will cost 100 new jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Fingal County Council had asked David Lloyd to \u2018include the \u201cBarryspark link road\u201d as part of the proposed development\u2019. The chain said it was not in a position to deliver this\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In 2024, Fingal\u2019s planners said the proposed development\u2019s design and layout were of 'poor unacceptable quality'. Stock image\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/450a1a5d-cb9f-4d22-b20f-10b3fd6d490b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">In 2024, Fingal\u2019s planners said the proposed development\u2019s design and layout were of &#8216;poor unacceptable quality&#8217;. Stock image\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One of the UK\u2019s largest fitness club operators has criticised planners after failing to win approval for a huge gym in Swords that it claims would have created over 100 jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">David Lloyd Leisure had its planning application for a proposed health and wellness club rejected for the second time in two years recently. Fingal County Council refused the latest planning bid for failing to provide a link road as part of the development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fingal County Council had asked David Lloyd to \u2018include the \u201cBarryspark link road\u201d as part of the proposed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4322],"tags":[1630,105,20103,16,15],"class_list":["post-751779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-sean-pollock","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116038250403438856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}