31 October 2007"Crystal Palace Diving Centre has been forced to undergo a £4m refurbishment, after asbestos was found on site.
The site has now been closed to the public and is expected to reopen in June 2008.
Joint operators, London Development Agency and Greenwich Leisure, have had to relocate the centre’s diving land training centre to a temporary facility on site to enable dive training to continue.
Sport England, which has awarded the centre £2.49m of lottery money in the past three years, for essential maintenance work, has been involved with the talks about the continued provision of diving facilities. Some of the training will have to be relocated to one of London’s six other pools which have five metre boards.
Sport England has invested more money into swimming than any other sport - £300m since 1994 – and has now awarded Hillingdon Council £1.5m towards the cost of the first 50m pool to be built in London for 40 years. "
(Via Leisure Opportunities Leisure Opportunities: Crystal Palace site closed due to asbestos find: .)
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"It seems to me that the politics of York are in a despotic situation, with a leaning towards sectionalism. It is my opinion that there are too many hidden agendas in the whole saga of the swimming pool business.
Do the Lib Dems have the right to sign away £2 million of York taxpayers' money, on a half-promise that the swimmers of York will be accommodated in a pool built on a university campus of several thousand students, who are mainly on staggered lessons and who could drop in for a dip at any time of day?
I think perhaps the ordinary swimmers of York, who are entitled under the Government's sports and leisure policies to have recreational facilities, including swimming, provided are being short-changed."
(Via This is York Shortchanged Over Swimming (from York Press): .)
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