BOURNEMOUTH’S skyline has been transformed by the new leisure complex being built in the heart of the town.

The £50m West Central leisure complex, which stands at five storeys on the former site of the Exeter Crescent car park, is really starting to take shape.

Most of the outside cladding has been completed and the building looks vastly different from the building site we have been used to seeing in the centre of the town.

Described as one of the biggest leisure developments in the country, it will include restaurants, shops and a 10-screen Odeon cinema. Parts of the complex could open as early as December