More than 200 people have applied for 55 jobs on offer at a huge trampoline park taking shape in Carlisle.

General manager Cameron Warnock still has to recruit about half of the staff he will need at the Energi centre.

A team of nine from a specialist trampoline park construction and design firm is transforming a large 22,000 sq ft unit on the Willowholme industrial estate into the new attraction.

About two miles of steel have already been installed, forming the framework for almost 90 trampoline beds.

The set-up will boast new first-time features not seen at any other Energi park.

The family-run team behind the new centre in Millrace Road, which is set to open next month, already runs similar trampoline parks in Preston and other places.

The Carlisle park will boast a cafe for up to 100 people, a briefing room for visitors, lockers and a party room. Attractions will include a 12-metre climbing wall, basketball hoops, a toddler soft “ninja warrior” assault course area and Olympic-sized trampolines.

Mr Warnock said: “It looks very different now to how it will look when it opens but once you’re here and you’ve got 135 children and their parents in the building, for instance, there is such a buzz.

“Here it will be the first time we launch our ninja toddler area and features like our stepping stones foam pit. We don’t have Olympic trampolines elsewhere either.

“We’re continually trying to innovate and try to make things as exciting as possible. We also want to try new things for our customers.”

He added: “Ultimately we went to create a safe environment while letting people have as much fun as possible.”

Mr Warnock has been working with Carlisle Youth Zone as part of its recruitment process and to raise awareness of the new facility with youngsters.

Carl Powell, of Doncaster-based Extreme Trampolining Arenas, heads up the nine-strong team constructing the new park.

He said: “We usually allow about six weeks to complete a project when we’re on site. There’s about two miles of steel in this framework and everything is a metre or so off the ground.

“All the timber work going on here is bespoke. We like to do that work on site so we know it fits perfectly.

“We travel the world doing this kind of thing and we like to bring ideas back to the UK what we see elsewhere, things like the soft ninja toddler area we’re doing here in Carlisle.”

The Energi Trampoline Park will run a series of different sessions once it opens, from autism-friendly sessions, times for toddlers, and Energi Beat – the company’s flagship session for 11- to 17-year-olds, where for two hours every week the lights go down and the music gets turned up.

Mr Warnock’s father John together with Andy Inces and Steve Butterfield are the three men behind the venture.