Kirklees Council has unveiled its plans for the construction of a new £36.2m sports centre in Huddersfield, which is to form part of the wider regeneration of the West Yorkshire town.

The new facility will be built on the Spring Grove car park in Springwood and is to be funded by sale of the existing Huddersfield Sports Centre site in Southgate for the development of a new Tesco supermarket. Plans for the new complex include a leisure water attraction incorporating a beach, a wave machine, a flume and a sidewinder, while other facilities will include a 25m, eight-lane swimming pool, a teaching pool with moveable floor, and a fitness suite.

Two sports halls and facilities for climbing, squash and martial arts also form part of the proposals, as well as a café and a children's area, in a bid to promote health and well-being among the local communities. A planning application for both the new sports centre and the Tesco supermarket are due to be submitted within the next few weeks, before a public consultation is held to enable local residents to comment on the plans.

If approved, work is set to start on the new sports centre in late 2010, while the new Tesco supermarket could be ready to open in 2014 to allow the regeneration of the company's existing Viaduct Street site to get underway in 2016. Mehboob Khan, Kirklees Council leader, said that while the council could refurbish the town's existing facilities in order to bring them up to standard, the length of time it would take and the costs involved made it more viable to pursue a new-build option.

Khan said: "The existing sports centre would have to close down while refurbishment took place, leaving Huddersfield without a main sports centre for up to two years, but in that same period of time the new facility could be built." Christine Stanfield, the council's cabinet member for regeneration, added: "Both buildings, the sports centre and new store, also include lots of green features which fit our ambition of reducing carbon emissions in Kirklees."