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TWO NORTHERN POOLS TO CLOSE


Two council-run swimming pools in Bradford are to close after a public consultation failed to find suitable bidders to take over their management. Bids for Rhodesway and Manningham pools were examined but neither was sufficiently ‘robust’. The authority blamed cuts in government funding for the closures. The council said Manningham baths in


particular needed “a significant amount of capital” to bring it up to an acceptable standard and the closure of both pools would save around £120,000. However an influential heritage group has protested against the closure of Manningham pool, which was opened in 1904.


The Victorian Society argues the pool is a completely enclosed space which allows for private single-sex bathing making it ideal for the Muslim community.


It also says that the pool is kept three degrees warmer than most other pools which suits less active older people as well as young children.


ONLINE ENTRAPMENT ACT TRAINING


The National Swimming Pool Foundation in the United States has announced a free online training course to educate health officials and pool and spa professionals about the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act better known as the


Entrapment Act. The course is a free, online resource to ensure that the requirements of the Act are properly understood, how to identify and perform required steps for inspection, and how to bring pools and spas into compliance.


A year after moving into new premises in Newton Abbot in Devon, Signature Pools held an ‘Open Weekend’ to celebrate the expansion of business and the opening of a new retail showroom. The event was part of an overall promotional campaign that included mass leafleting to targeted local postcodes as well as invitations to existing customers. Providing hospitality for the guests and supported by product manufacturers and suppliers including Golden Coast, SCP, Astral and Bayrol each visitor was given a free prize-draw ticket to win a range of pool and spa related products. “The weekend was a great success with around 100 people coming through the door, made up of existing and new customers,” said Keir Balouza.


The family business, which started just over three years ago, has a long pedigree, dating back to the 1970’s when Keir’s parents, Richard and Belinda, originally became the then Cascade dealers for the South West of England. During their time they installed more than 200 pools in Devon and Cornwall before branching out into the manufacture


A coroner is writing to the Government with a number of recommendations after an inquest jury returned a verdict of misadventure on an eight-year-old boy who drowned in a public swimming pool.


Kaimen Ward, who was described as a non-swimmer, got into difficulties while playing with a group of teenagers at Hambleton Leisure Centre, in Northallerton last August. Coroner Michael Oakley said he


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Neil Garrett of Golden Coast with Belinda, Natasha, Keir and Richard in the new showroom


and distribution of sun beds when the market first took off; they sold the company in the 80s and moved away from the area.


Returning to Devon they found a gap in the swimming pool market, which they filled by starting the current business based on taking over commercial maintenance contracts and supplying products to the trade and domestic pool owners in the area following the demise of Young Leisure, Devon. Keir and his partner Natasha are now also very much part of the business. Pool building and refurbishment remains the mainstay of the business


would write to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Hambleton District Council with his recommendations including: anyone suspected of drinking before entering the pool should be barred, and blinds should be installed on pool-side windows to prevent glare on the water. He added he would suggest one or more extra lifeguards at pools like Hambleton with different layouts to other facilities.


today, with the company currently involved in a £100,000 pool refurbishment project in Cornwall. This involves turning the existing indoor swimming pool into a spa complex, complete with swimming pool, sauna, steam and spa. Discussions are also taking place on two similar contracts.


Looking to the future Keir sees the market as positive, “We have been growing year-on-year and we are picking up a lot of work. The retail side is a new venture for us, with the Internet being the biggest competitor but we are confident that our venture will succeed,” he said.


ZERO TOLERANCE ON DRINKING AND SWIMMING IN POOLS SAYS CORONER


The inquest heard a group of teenagers was told off by pool-side staff for going down a slide in a group and for being rowdy and splashing about.


At one point, the teenagers were asked if they had been drinking and staff smelt their breath.


Giving evidence, the teenagers denied they had been drinking. Mr Oakley described the teenage girls as “lax and irresponsible”.


DALESAUNA COMPLETE NEW WYE LEISURE POOL PROJECT


Dalesauna has just completed a new pool project at Wye Leisure, a privately owned health club in the


Wye Valley in Herefordshire. The company has worked with Wye Leisure on several projects linked to the popular health and leisure club, and when they decided they wanted to add a new outdoor swimming pool facility to the club, decided on the North Yorkshire company as suppliers. The pool offers a variety of bubble loungers, massage benches and neck massage cannons.


Said Dalesauna Sales Director Gerard McCarthy: ”The client specifically wanted a large open space in the centre of the pool as many of the older members like to walk up and down in the pool for exercise.”


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