Leisure centre legal battle ends 15 years after handover

Sefton Council has finally secured a £2.2m payment award from contractor Allenbuild 15 years after work on its Splash World leisure centre completed.
Problems at the water park included tiles coming detached from the pool wall and floor, parts of the concrete flume tower staircase failing and “failures in the steel frame coating system”.
The council spent several years trying to resolve issues informally but last year resorted to adjudication to resolve a latent defects claim a