Sports trust Tone Leisure has completed a £0.7m redevelopment project to extend the fitness facilities at three leisure centres in the Taunton Deane area.

Work began on Wellington Sports Centre, Wellsprings Leisure Centre and Blackbrook Pavilion at the end of August 2008. Wellington Sports Centre has seen an extension of the gym into the crèche to create a 240sq m, 45-station fitness suite.

Wellsprings Leisure Centre has converted an underused steam and sauna area into extra gym space to create a new 375sq m, 70-station fitness suite at a cost of £240,000. £400,000 was invested at Blackbrook Pavilion, to convert two squash courts and a studio into a 350sq m, 75-station fitness suite. The former 200sq m gym has been turned into a new studio.

Wellington and Wellsprings have both seen the introduction of new CV equipment from Precor, while Blackbrook has been kitted out with a range of remanufactured equipment from the PTE group and CV equipment from the former gym at Wellsprings. The kit will be upgraded to Precor within the next three years. The project was managed and funded by Alliance Leisure and work was carried out by design and build contractor Createability.

Joel Chapman, commercial director at Tone Leisure said: "The redevelopment of these three sites means that we can now comfortably accommodate our existing members, as well as attracting new users. "Alliance Leisure and Createability have designed the redevelopments to create a better environment and this has already reaped the benefits of new members.

"Both Wellsprings and Blackbrook have seen a significant increase in membership already with Wellington holding steady."