The Edge

This is a nice place for many physical exercises and activities. I go there regularly for playing and sport activities. The cost for membership is quite high for external people. The EDGE needs to come up with a different plan. People really struggle to pay for its facilities and they don't use all of them. For me, the next plan should be to have a membership plan for each facility and keep adding on top of them. They have a gym and many other facilities for example, squash, swimming, basketball, badminton, indoor football, cricket, climbing etc. booking required for any of these ones. They also gave a nice place for socializing and if you wish to sit and chit chat. Parking is a big issue! And it is paid. Although, it is a big parking area, it is also used by Leeds University people and hence super busy all the time and hard to find a parking space. Because of the parking cost, it makes the visit even more expensive for external visitors. Other than that, it has wheelchair accessibility. 6 electric cars charging socket and all functioning. If you are lucky you might find one of them free. People are nice and friendly. They do have gym or swimming trainers as well.

This is a nice place for many physical exercises and activities. I go there regularly for playing and sport activities. The cost for membership is quite high for external people. The EDGE needs to come up with a different plan. People really struggle to pay for its facilities and they don't use all of them. For me, the next plan should be to have a membership plan for each facility and keep adding on top of them. They have a gym and many other facilities for example, squash, swimming, basketball, badminton, indoor football, cricket, climbing etc. booking required for any of these ones. They also gave a nice place for socializing and if you wish to sit and chit chat. Parking is a big issue! And it is paid. Although, it is a big parking area, it is also used by Leeds University people and hence super busy all the time and hard to find a parking space. Because of the parking cost, it makes the visit even more expensive for external visitors. Other than that, it has wheelchair accessibility. 6 electric cars charging socket and all functioning. If you are lucky you might find one of them free. People are nice and friendly. They do have gym or swimming trainers as well.

The reception staff at the Edge are always very good, welcoming and helpful. However on a different note after swimming yesterday morning for the 7:30 am session (7/9/25), and experiencing the revised lane set out it was a very dissatisfying lane swim. The 7:30 - 8:30 am Saturday and Sunday swims are supposed to be a lane swim with lanes to segregate swimmers of different abilities. However the removal of 3 lane ropes renders most of the pool as a free for all. And when the students come back and the pool gets busier then lane swimming will be a waste of time. And bearing in mind some very fast swimmers use these sessions there could be some very bad collisions. And to make matters worse, the already limited 1 hour swim (and that’s when swimmers are allowed in on time), has now being been shaved to 55 minutes, which is to enable the children’s swimming lessons to start earlier, bearing in mind these swimming lessons go on for several hours. Another annoying aspect, particularly with the Saturday swim is that the end lane during the 1 adult swim is hired out for private lane hire / swimming lessons, mainly for young children, often just 1 child in the end lane, which happens to be the widest lane in the pool. So pool space is already limited for the relatively time limited adult swim as it is. All I can say is that management should seriously consider installing all the lane ropes again, reinstating it as a 1 hour session, with the pool roller shutter door open on time and incorporating the private lane hire into the children’s swimming lessons program. Ideally the adult 1 hour swim should be extended to 90 mins, with a 7 am start time.