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SPN AUG 2012 CommercialPools


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Manchester Tone Dale – new style ‘green’ pool benefiting from investments in UV and heat pump technology


There are just over 4,700 commercially operated pools in the UK, most of them having to deal with demanding safety issues alongside the need to offer better facilities for the swimming public and find more operating cost savings. The good news for them is there is an abundance of help at hand


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Virgin Active – leisure pool group is committed to improve swimming environment for customers


t some stage in the last six months the troubles facing those tasked with running Britain’s commercial pools seem to have turned the corner.


Things got a bit better.


More specialist solutions for energy savings, water treatments, renovations and improved wet leisure facilities have been introduced – despite the lack of formal funding.


More UV systems have been installed in the last six months than in the previous two years, offering reassurance about the long term improvements to water quality and automatic pool covers have become popular and successful. Day to day operating systems are increasingly being handed over to consultants and specialist pool management companies as pool managers themselves focus on marketing solutions to attract more customers.


So is the glass half full or half empty for commercial pools half way through 2012? Tony Kershaw has spent most of the last five years helping to run and manage commercial pools in Birmingham.


“It continues to be a huge period of change. I talk to other commercial pool managers who just make do although they understand the pools themselves really need more substantial investment than is available. Technology has been really helpful. Better heat pumps have been a huge factor – so have UV systems. People complain about chlorine but we can’t compromise with safety. If you introduce something new it has to pay for itself and pretty quickly in terms of saving money.” There is still however the increasing threat of further cutbacks in the UK’s 2,800 public sector pools which at worst could mean closure and at


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