Changing Villages

[NavyOrca]

Can someone explain this to me, please?

I’d like to start going swimming again after many years. Local leisure centre has had big revamp in recent years, and as I’m looking on their website, I notice they now have a ‘changing village’.

I’ve never heard of this before. I’m assuming this is one big communal space for everyone?!

Call them and ask

Call and ask but our local leisure centre has what they call a “changing village” and it’s still cubicles, just different sizes so they have family ones, smaller ones for 1 person, slightly bigger ones for 2 people etc

Normally 2 sexes in same spaces with enclosed individual and family cubicles.

Lines of cubicles, with lockable doors, and lockers. Showers open plan so its a rinse off

Mine has this. It's cubicles in the same area. Some are small and some are bigger for people changing with kids. There are gaps under and above the stall doors though so you still should be careful if it's the same in your place.

Call and check. Ours is cubicles (different sizes) but everyone can use all of them. Tbh I find this works much better with family swimming.

As everyone has said, communal area but important signs are in mine staying no nudity in communal areas. Lots of cubicles of varying sizes and both communal showers and private showers too.

I’d be extremely surprised if a local authority leisure centre had refurbed to make one big open area for everyone to change in!

Usually changing village means no open changing area at all, it’s rows of unisex cubicles and some family sized ones. Some have separate men’s and women’s showers and some just very public shared ones that are really just for rinsing with costume on.

As someone with an opposite sex disabled child I vastly prefer a village to having men’s and women’s changing rooms.

Ours is lots of cubicles single and family. Communal showers and men and women toilets. It's great means we can all get changed together

Ours is a changing village.

It is rows and rows of cubicles and lockers, a section of shower cubicles and a couple of family change rooms.

There is no where available where you could feasibly get changed outside of a lockable cubicle/room and signage makes clear that no one should be in a state of undress outside a cubicle.

It is unisex but I feel more comfortable there than I did at the Bupa gym with communal women's changing rooms because there is a clear expectation that there be no nudity where others can see it at all.