BURNLEY is set to get its own indoor trampolining centre – the third proposed for East Lancashire in the last six months.

Padiham hairdresser Daniel Veitch yesterday unveiled his proposals for a vacant industrial unit in Craven Street off Plumbe Street near the town centre.

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He hopes the £200,000 ‘Pegasus Drop Zone’ scheme will create up to 30 new jobs and feed the fast-growing market for trampolining.

His planned ‘softplay’ area and trampoline centre with cafe and party rooms’ will have a special toddlers’ area to make sure it caters for all the family.

It follows similar projects for the SoccerDome in Haslingden Road, Blackburn, announced in January and buildings off Sydney Street in Accrington, revealed earlier this month.

Mr Veitch, who lives on River Drive and works on Blackburn Market, thought of the idea when finding it hard to take all his four children, Alanya, 13, Daniel, 12, Morgan, four, and Owen, two, to one venue meeting all their play needs.

A former member of the Royal Signals Regiment he chose its name ‘The Pegasus Drop Zone’ after the Parachute Regiment for which he is a volunteer reservist.

Mr Veitch, 38, said: “Trampolining is a fast-growing sport and my children have one in the garden.

“I thought Burnley should have its own centre.

“When I took my children out I couldn’t find anywhere that catered for all of their different age needs. This new centre, which I hope will open later this summer, involves refurbishing an empty industrial unit rebuilt after a fire. There will be something for everybody, including a cafe and 30 plus linked sets of trampolines.

“It will have a special area for toddlers with a foam pit underneath where they can play safely, a tumble-track, a roll-over platform, sloped walls, a battle beam, a slam-dunk zone and a cardio-wall.

“I am looking to recruit about 30 staff and it will cost around £200,000."

“Pegasus comes from the Parachute regiment badge and the ‘Drop Zone’ from where we land.”

Brunshaw ward councillor and chairman of Burnley Wood Community Centre Tony Harrison said: “This is a good idea and a good location. I particularly like the idea of it being somewhere you can take both teenage and young children." where the can be busy, active and safe.”