A LOUDWATER gym looks set to reopen after a member made a last ditch bid to stop its weights and fitness machines being auctioned.

Chris Summers, 47, who lives in Loudwater, bought the full contents of the The Fitness Studio on Treadaway Hill yesterday, and is in negotiations to lease the building.

But he stressed it would be a “completely new business” and memberships would not be transferred from the old company.

Mr Summers said: “The members will be very much welcomed back and every effort will be made to accommodate people that had paid up front.

“I want to try and offer some sort of incentive to those people and they will be welcomed back by familiar faces.”

“I've been a member there for a couple of years and it was a crying shame that it was going under.”

“I want to see if I can improve the facilities and make it a place people want to come back to.”

He hopes to reopen the gym under a new name in about two weeks time.