Please help us keep Putney pool to its 33-metres they’re planning to shrink it to 25-metres. Please sign our petition thank you. https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-putney-s-33-metre-pool
Nina Sklar ● 1d6 Comments
We have a shortage of public pools in the UK - and definitely a shortage of Olympic sized ones. So making another shorter and presumably losing the diving boards is going to make teaching and training for british swimmers who compete even harder.Ealing's 50m Gurnell pool has been closed since 2020. That is due to be rebuilt starting soon as 50m - hopefully to Olympic standard (the previous one was 50m but wasn't wide enough to be called Olympic standard). It will be built with a lot of housing and has been very controversial.https://ealing.nub.news/news/local-news/ealing-leisure-centre-to-be-demolished-and-rebuilt-with-water-park-and-300-homes-249994Swimming is an important life skill and all state school children are supposed to learn how to swim a certain length - many don't manage this due to a shortage of pools - and the tragedies of recent weeks have highlighted this.http://files.localgov.co.uk/swimming.pdf
Philippa Bond ● 8h
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Nina Sklar ● 18h
@Carl@CarlYou may think so. I do not. If the pool was being threatened with closure I would fully support the petition but not for just making it the standard length of most local authority (indoor) swimming pools.
Sue Hammond ● 1d
The extra bit of length gives swimmers extra stamina to reach the end when swimming in a smaller pool. Isn't this the length of a Victorian pool?
Philippa Bond ● 1d
What an idiotic thing to say.The local swimming pool is more relevant than most of the guff posted on here nowadays.Petition signed.
Carl Broadley ● 1d
1st world problem🙄