Did we mention that the cost of the Olympic Aquatic Centre had quadrupled while its size had halved. Has anyone forgotten that increasing numbers of councils are paying companies to run the leisure centres that Londoners built and paid for and continue to maintain. Within these they can run highly profitable / surplus-creating (delete where applicable) businesses and we the owners and voters have no idea what the business arrangement is - how much is recouped if the centre, state of the art new construction, is a runaway success.

Recently we drew readers attention to these statistics on free swimming around the country.

"PENSIONERS in Haringey will no longer have free entry to borough leisure centres and disabled people will have to pay more in a council overhaul of pricing."

(Via Hornsey Journal Pensioners to lose free entry to leisure centres: .)

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| London Borough of Harringay | 31 January 2008; 6:52:38 PM |# | | Discuss |

"A BATTLE of the sexes has broken out over female-only sauna sessions at Tottenham Green Leisure Centre.

A 155-name petition calling for more access for men has been submitted to Haringey Council.

Male users are feeling increasingly sidelined from the sauna and steam room as both are given over exclusively to women for three sessions a week.

Haringey Council has defended the single-sex timetable, saying male only sessions had not proved popular with the public."

(Via Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal: .)

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| London Borough of Harringay | 22 June 2007; 12:50:52 AM |# | | Discuss (1 response) |

Hornsey and Crouch End Journal:

SUSAN Halter swam in the 1948 Olympics aged just 19 - and nearly 60 years later is still picking up medals for her excellence in the sport.

Mrs Halter, who swims at Park Road Pool, has just returned from the World Masters Swimming Championships in San Francisco, from where she returned home with four medals. ...more ---> ...

| London Borough of Harringay | 4 September 2006; 5:50:23 PM |# | | Discuss |

"TOTTENHAM Green Leisure Centre was the scene of a mass brawl on Monday.

Four people were arrested after a crowd - aged between 10 and 30 - rioted in the sports centre and on the street outside. About 25 policemen were called to the scene to try and calm the mob down.

Jim Cassins, of Hermitage Road, South Tottenham, who was in the leisure centre at the time, said: "I have never seen anything like it in my life. It was like a scene from The Bill."

(Via Tottenham Journal Kids join in 'riot' at leisure centre: .)

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| London Borough of Harringay | 10 May 2006; 9:48:38 PM |# | | Discuss |