The vacant Kartec House building in Greenhill Crescent, Watford Business Park, was most recently used as an MOT and vehicle recovery/repair centre but is the subject of a change of use application submitted to Watford Borough Council last week.
This would turn the shop floor into a large cardio and weights area, with locker rooms, showers, a free/hyrox area, and rooms for spin classes also provided.
Application documents state: “This would be a 24-hour facility, 7 days a week catering for around 5,000 people.
“Pump Gym in the area, and now closed, was previously serving 6,500 members, hence the need for a new replacement facility in the area.”
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It adds that this “would not be out of place” in the business park and could also serve residents in the “many new flats” built near the site.
The new gym would be around a 15-minute walk from the former Pump Gym Watford location in Wolsey Business Park, which closed at the end of July amid plans to create a new logistics development at its site.
Watford Borough Council is currently considering the change of use application, with October 31 set as the target date for a decision.