London Pools Campaign: Re: Comment on post 407

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Re: Comment on post 407

The text below is out of date.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.