We are not quite sure why this has been posted again as a news item on Leisure Opportunities but it gives a good round-up of the present situation so we display it here anyway.
"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. "
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