BREAKING NEWS: We’ve launched Our Plan to Save Pool in the Park which is currently under threat from closure.
Our five-point plan includes treating the profitable Eastwood Leisure Centre, which generates over £100k a year, and Pool in the Park as one service – as closing one of the facilities will directly impact the other.
It would also give Freedom Leisure, which runs the centre, more independence to manage the service away from Woking Borough Council.
My plan would also introduce a ringfenced fund for maintenance and improvements in the future.
The plan includes working with local groups to determine optimum pool temperatures and reduce utility costs.
Finally, the plan allows for work to ensure that the cost of using leisure facilities in Woking remains in line with other boroughs to keep swimming in Woking accessible to all.
Nearly 8,000 people have already backed the campaign to save Pool in the Park. I am delighted that we have stepped-up with an imaginative and practical plan to do just that.
This shouldn’t be about party politics – we need to save this vital facility and I warmly thank and pay full tribute to ALL those who have supported or led the various threads of this awesome campaign to save Pool in the Park - especially the fantastic community group that has done vital work and such persuasive lobbying.
I encourage the Council’s administration to adopt the suggestions that my colleagues and I have put forward and thereby SAVE OUR POOL.
Cllr Kevin Davis said: “This Plan is the result of weeks of meetings, questions and information gathering – it hasn’t been easy to put together, given some of the sketchy information provided by the Council. Now that we have developed and put forward our plan, we invite the Council's administration to work with us and ALL other parties to keep Pool in the Park open.”
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