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High profile refurbishments can end being award winning projects as in the case of these two pool
refurbishments by the London Swimming Pool Company.
THIS: A badly damaged 70 year old pool in a private London estate was returned to its former glory
BOTTOM: A 21 metre pool in an Epsom school was brought back up to standard
SCOTLAND’S PUBLIC POOLS FACE REFURBISHMENT CRISIS
Scotland‘s swimming pools will need The study shows that Scotland has a As well as estimating the costs
£540m re-investment in refurbishing substantial supply of public swimming involved, this comprehensive report looks
pools throughout the country by the pools (338) which serve a variety of at good practice in public maintenance,
year 2020 if they are to continue to needs: learn to swim, keeping fit and upgrading and refurbishment and the
serve the needs of the population. healthy, recreational swimming, strategic considerations associated with
This is equivalent to £25m per year at competitive swimming, life saving and sub pool refurbishment versus pool
1998 prices. aqua. Furthermore, all the evidence replacement.
These findings emerges from a study suggests that these facilities are highly Sportscotland Chairman Alastair
commissioned by sportscotland, valued by their local communities. Dempster said: “The value of this report
conducted with COSLA (the Convention However the study also shows that is to alert all concerned to the scale of
of Scottish Local Authorities) and investment in this stock of swimming the issue and to promote a co-operative
providers and managers of a large pools is not keeping pace with the approach to finding solutions. Having
number of public swimming pools deterioration of the fabric and plant of initially committed £5m from the Lottery
throughout the country. The aim of the the pools. The contrast is not always Sports Fund as a first step in tackling this
study was to try and estimate the overall evident visually hence the title of the issue, a further £5m has now been
scale of the problem. report ‘The Ticking Time Bomb’. identified.”
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