CHILDREN and adventurous adults could soon get to ricochet their way around an indoor trampoline park in Abingdon.

A trampoline park company has set its sights on opening at an industrial estate in the town which parents said could inject energy into the town’s "limited" leisure scene.

Red Kangaroo has approached Vale of White Horse District Council to transform three units in Nuffield Way into the springy sports centre which would be the first of its kind in the county.

Its planning application, which appeared on the council’s website on last month, said: "Trampoline parks by their very nature provide a healthy backdrop to a fun leisure activity, automatically increasing fitness levels.

"It is born into every person worldwide to jump up and down when excited, happy or in celebration, no matter their age, sex or culture."

The company, which was founded recently, estimated that the 1,860sqm park would provide 52 new jobs in the town and could accommodate 85 users at a time.

It suggested that the unit, near Fairacres Retail Park, should also have 43 parking spaces and 20 bike racks, while an accompanying transport study insisted it "will not give rise to any material transport-related impacts".

The change-of-use application said that after asking 100 nearby neighbours about the plans, it received "no opposition at all".

Naomi Richardson, who has campaigned for improvements to leisure facilities at Abbey Meadow, said she would definitely use the park with her 10-year-old daughter.

The North Abingdon resident said: "Abingdon is a growing town that needs things for people to do. Leisure is very limited for older kids, there are some quite nice facilities for small children but over the age of about seven-years-old you are really struggling. You end up going to Oxford for the cinema or ice skating – if you want to go to a trampoline park you have to go to Swindon.

"They are good fun; you have normally got a bank of trampolines and ones on the wall. It would be fantastic - it would definitely enhance leisure facilities in Abingdon, particularly for older children. It would be nice to have something we can cycle to."

Other comments made during door-to-door consultation were listed on the application, in which one neighbour said: "Wonderful, there are so many kids round here and nothing for them to do, especially in the winter".

The unit used to be home to drinks dispenser company IMI Cornelius, and has been re-roofed and refurbished since it left.

In accompanying letter about marketing the lease, estate agents Parker Parr said several deals for more traditional uses of the building fell through in the aftermath of Brexit.

The district council is due to decide on the application by November 21.