FireFit Hub

The £5.2 million Toxteth Fire Fit Hub, which is being built by Wates Construction, will see a state-of-the-art fire station as well as a youth and community hub and a major sporting facility built.

The sporting facilities will include new football pitches, martial arts studio, dance studio and a new gym that will introduce the “train like a firefighter” concept.

It is being built on the corner of Windsor and Upper Warwick Street in the heart of Toxteth.

Funding for the new Toxteth Fire Fit Hub was secured through the £2.3 million Department for Education myplace initiative with an additional £2.8 million funding from Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service and £500,000 from Liverpool City Council.

Weight of structural steel used for the frame - 156 tonnes, equal to the average weight of 13 Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service fire engines.

Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service and Liverpool City Council are working with local community representatives and organizations as the Hub takes shape. There has been significant input from not only the Toxteth Fire Fit Hub Ambassadors but also the Rialto Neighbourhood Centre, Toxteth Tigers, Kingsley United and volunteer Paddy Logan.

Construction began in November 2011 and by the end of February 2012 had seen 2,061 beams and 6,943 bolts assembled to complete the steel frame for the two-storey sports centre and fire station.