Redditch never had much to shout about when it comes to padel. Now it does. Padelheim – a four-court indoor club built inside a converted industrial complex on South Moons Moat – has opened its doors, and it’s the most ambitious padel facility the Worcestershire area has seen.

The club is the work of two local entrepreneurs, Jack Stevens and Sam Lissaman, who knocked through the walls of three adjacent 6,000 sq ft industrial units to create roughly 20,000 sq ft of contiguous space. The result is a site built from scratch for padel – courts, fitness studios, a café and bar, and a mezzanine – rather than a few courts shoehorned into an existing leisure centre.

What is Padelheim?

Padelheim describes itself as a sports and social club, and the concept goes beyond booking a court and leaving. The core offering is four indoor padel courts at professional standard, but the facility wraps around them: two distinct fitness studios, a social area called The Loft (the café and bar), and community-facing spaces designed to make the venue somewhere people want to spend time.

The founders cite UK padel participation having more than trebled in the past year as the prompt for the project. Padel has been spreading fast through the major cities – Birmingham now has 24+ courts across seven venues – but dedicated facilities in smaller regional towns like Redditch have been almost non-existent. Padelheim is a direct bet that the sport’s growth has legs beyond the M25 and the major metropolitan centres.

Planning approval for the change of use was granted by Redditch Borough Council, and construction started in April 2026 ahead of the club’s opening.

The venue – courts, studios, and what’s inside

The four indoor courts are the headline, and “indoor” is worth emphasising: padel in British weather is a different experience to the outdoor formats that most continental players grow up on. Glass-walled courts in a converted warehouse give you consistent conditions year-round – the main reason players who take the sport seriously tend to favour indoor venues once they’ve had the option.

Beyond the courts, Padelheim plans two separate fitness offerings: a Reformer Pilates studio and a strength studio running high-energy group sessions, both listed as coming soon. That’s an unusual pairing for a padel club, and it suggests the founders want the venue to function as a weekly destination rather than a single-sport facility.

The Loft – the social space, café, and bar on the upper level – follows the same logic, though it’s also listed as coming soon at time of writing. Padel is a social sport by structure (you need four players, conversation is built into the format), and venues that accommodate post-match time tend to retain members better than those that send you straight back to the car park.

Membership is available through the Founders Membership tier: a one-off £180 fee gets you 15% off every court booking, 14-day advance booking (non-members get 7 days), discounted food and drink, enhanced loyalty points, pro shop access, and entry to club competitions. A loyalty app is available on iOS and Android.

Pricing and how to book

Padelheim is open and taking bookings via Playtomic, the booking platform used by the majority of UK padel venues. Court hire runs from around £36 per hour, in line with other indoor venues across the Midlands, and the four courts – each carrying a sponsor name on booking listings – see strong demand at peak evening and weekend slots.

The Founders Membership (£180 one-off) is worth weighing up if you plan to play regularly: 15% off every booking pays for itself quickly at that hourly rate, on top of the extended advance-booking window and other perks listed above.

For live availability, check Padelheim directly on Playtomic or via the club’s own booking system at padelheim.co.uk.

Where is it? Getting to Padelheim in Redditch

Padelheim is at Units 1-3 Padgets Lane, Redditch, within the South Moons Moat business park, in the B98 postcode area. South Moons Moat is a well-established business park on the southern edge of the town, accessible from the A441.

For drivers, the venue is about 15 miles south-east of Birmingham city centre via the A435, and roughly 15 miles north-east of Worcester. Redditch itself sits just outside junction 3 of the M42, making it reachable from Solihull, Bromsgrove, and the southern Birmingham suburbs without having to navigate city traffic.

Redditch has a rail station with regular services from Birmingham Moor Street (around 35 minutes). South Moons Moat is about 2 miles from the station – walkable in 35–40 minutes, or a short taxi ride.

Other padel options in Worcestershire

Redditch also has OMNI Padel at Astwood Business Park, Astwood Lane (B96 6HH). OMNI has five courts – two outdoor that have been running since the venue opened, and three indoor courts that launched in spring 2026. It books via Padel Mates, with prices from £20 per hour.

Elsewhere in Worcestershire, Padel + Play Worcester operates four indoor courts at Bromyard Business Park (WR2 5XU), with prices from £32 to £60 per hour, bookable on Playtomic. Barnt Green Sports Club, about 15 miles south of Worcester, has three outdoor floodlit courts on a pay-and-play basis.

Two newer venues fill out the wider catchment. Ombersley Tennis & Padel Club, in Ombersley village near Droitwich (WR9 0DR), added a second outdoor floodlit court in August 2026, taking it to two courts. And south of Redditch, Te Amo Padel at The Hayes in Alvechurch – now operating under new ownership as CorteSport at The Hayes – runs three outdoor floodlit courts, with a café, bar and changing facilities either in place or on the way. Both book via Playtomic.

For the biggest selection in the region, Birmingham is the obvious reference point – 24 courts across seven venues, including Pure Padel Jewellery Quarter, which opened in January 2026 as the first city-centre indoor option.

If you’re weighing up whether Padelheim is the right fit, it’s worth reading how to choose a padel club before committing to a membership – the considerations are the same whether you’re in Redditch or anywhere else.

Why Redditch?

The choice of location is deliberate. Redditch sits in a gap in the regional padel map: close enough to Birmingham to draw players who don’t want to travel into the city, far enough from Worcester that it serves a distinct catchment. The South Moons Moat Industrial Estate is close to the A441 and has the floor space that a four-court facility requires – the sort of building you can’t find in a town centre.

The broader West Midlands padel market is growing fast. The sport arrived in the city clusters first – Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester – but that wave tends to push outward. Redditch is large enough (population around 85,000) to sustain a specialist venue on its own, with the Birmingham fringe as a secondary audience.

The co-founders’ plan to build fitness studios and a social space in from the start, rather than adding them later, is a sign of intent. Padel clubs that survive beyond the initial enthusiasm tend to be ones where the social infrastructure matches the courts. By that measure, Padelheim looks like a serious operation, even with The Loft and the fitness studios still listed as coming soon.

Padelheim is open now, with courts bookable on Playtomic. Keep an eye on padelheim.co.uk for updates on the café, bar and fitness studio launches.