An £11m sports centre is in line for a community building award, despite recent complaints about its facilities.

The newly revamped Westcroft Leisure Centre has been short listed for the best community building award at the Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Regional Building Excellence Award next month.

However only last week, visitors to the centre complained about a sewage smell emanating from the building, and others complained the centre's new library is understocked and its classes oversubscribed.

A spokesman for Everyone's Active, which runs the centre said the smell was due to a blocked drain and the issue was resolved on the same day.

But Steven Mottram took his daughter Emily, 9, with some friends to the centre during school half term, but could not believe what he saw.

He said: "They have spent millions on this centre and that was disgusting. There was yellow liquid coming out of the drains. There were kids there with babies. That shouldn't happen."

Mother-of-two Anne Whiteside, who was a regular attendee to Snuggle Time mother and toddler reading groups at Carshalton Library before the library shut down to be reolocated to the Westcroft Centre, said it is impossible to get into the new classes at Westcroft.

She said: "I laughed when I saw it had been nominated for a community award. It doesn't seem fair they closed down a very good library and gave us this one, it seems much smaller. The classes are so busy."

Councillor Jill Whitehead, environment spokesperson for Sutton Council said the library had been "immensely successful" but admitted there had been a reduction in the number of books on offer.

She added: "There has been a small reduction in the stock on display, but we are constantly monitoring the book issue figures to ensure we are meeting the needs of everyone who uses the library."

Commenting on being nominated for the award, she said: "Recognition for this work that has gone into making Westcroft such an asset to the community is always well received and this just goes to show how highly it is thought of across the whole of London."