Leisure facility management company, Leisure Connection, is to close one of its head offices – leading to staff redundancies.

The company, which currently manages 120 leisure facilities on behalf of 50 local authorities, currently supports three head offices, in Leeds, Redbourn and Rochford in Essex.

The Redbourn office is coming to the end of its lease so the company said it has taken the opportunity ‘to review central costs, improve efficiency, increase the value for money and the service delivery to customers’.

A statement from the company said: “In view of the lease coming to an end and the subsequent review, resources at the Redbourn head office will be reallocated to the other offices and sites and the internal structure of the company is being reassessed.”

It added: “While new posts are being created, this will unfortunately also lead to some people leaving the company.”

Leisure Connection is currently responsible for managing over a third of all local authority leisure facilities under private management, but also manages the four National Sports Centres – Crystal Palace, Bisham Abbey, Lilleshall and The National Water Sports Centre – on behalf of Sport England.

In addition, the company manages Stoke Mandeville Stadium on behalf of the British Wheelchair Sports Foundation. Details: www.leisureconnection.co.uk