The Portway Lifestyle Centre will open on the site of the existing Oldbury Leisure Centre in 2011.

The building includes a sports hall, hydrotherapy pool, gym and weight area, dance studio, climbing wall and floodlit five a side pitches.

There will also be a purpose-built doctors' surgery - Tividale Family Practice.

The centre will be one of the few of its type in the country offering integrated health, well-being and leisure services.

Sandwell Council's cabinet member for adult services and health Cllr Darren Cooper said: "This project will bring major benefits to the people of Sandwell and delivers on promises made by adult services and health to people with disabilities in the borough."

Portway is the name of the neighbourhood where the centre will be built. It will be called a Lifestyle centre because of the range of services on offer.

Sandwell Council's cabinet member for culture and leisure Cllr Linda Horton said: "Portway Lifestyle Centre is a hugely exciting project which will be a centre of excellence for people with disabilities as well as the wider community.

"The model has been specifically designed to give partially sighted and blind people a good idea of how the centre will appear."

The Government has agreed funding for the project, a partnership between Sandwell Council, Sandwell Leisure Trust, Sandwell Primary Care Trust and Sandwell Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFTCO) Company.

Richard Nugent, Chair of Sandwell Primary Care Trust, said: "We are delighted  Portway Lifestyle Centre will be able to offer so many services all under one roof.

"Working together with our partners to bring a Lifestyle Centre to Sandwell has given us all an opportunity to help improve the health and well being of our local communities."

Sandwell Leisure Trust Chair Lois Taylor said: "This is a great opportunity to give Sandwell a wonderful new venue offering excellent services.

"The Lifestyle Centre is an exciting project which will benefit people across the borough."

Sandwell Council's deputy leader and cabinet member for strategic resources Cllr Steve Eling said: "The centre will provide tremendous facilities for the whole community and will combine leisure and health facilities, including a GP surgery."