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 paul hyman
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Posted: 4/18/2005; 12:53:44 PM 
The text below is out of date. Also we are taking a report to the council's cabinet
in May which sets out a long term strategy to replace Ealing's pools (including
Swimarama) with modern, flexible facilities better suited to the needs of local
people (and West london) over the next 30 years. This will be a public domain
document soon and we would be happy to share with you. Richard Grady is the
project manager for this work 8825 6409 or you can contaxt me on 8825 5302
Paul Hyman
SPRING 2004 Swimmers and other pool and leisure
centre users are facing the closure of Northolt Swimarama as early as next
October. Ealing Council are planning
to knock down the building and sell the site to a developer for £3.5 million.
While there are proposals to possibly build a new pool on on the site of
Northolt High School, swimmers are concerned about:
Lack of consultation about the proposed changes
That the school is unhappy about how the public can safely be given access
to a part of their site
The new proposal has only 1 pool instead of the existing
3 pools and this will mean an end to the swimming club, women-only swimming
and generally limit the variety of use of the pool.
If the school and surrounding primary schools are using the pool for teaching,
will there be room for the public to swim as well? The proposed pool is
shallow and will not allow for synchronised swimming, diving, water-polo, sub-aqua
or canoe training
The proposed pool has a stand of just 142 which will not allow for galas
The car park for the Swimarama is being sold as part of the site, so where
will people park to go swimming? And where will the coaches, parents and
travelling
teams park if there are galas? The council are planning to knock down the
Swimarama before the new pool is agreed and built, swimmers are worried that
the lack
of continuity will mean the end of many of the clubs, and also that the
new
pool may fall through altogether.
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