Take the plunge or there will be no public pools left
NEARLY 200 leisure centres across England have received a share of £220 million from the Swimming Pool Support Fund announced in the Government’s March budget, including Macclesfield Leisure Centre on Priory Lane and the Poynton Centre on Yew Tree Lane.
This has, at least, given these pools a stay of execution and I would urge local residents to support their leisure centres rather than watch them close down.
We are great at saying how important our libraries and leisure centres are to us, sadly this is often not born out by their use.
How many families have fond memories of learning to swim in local leisure centres but never go. In the meantime, private pools have appeared everywhere and the council must ask why families are choosing to attend these facilities instead of council-owned pools.
Both my children
learned to swim in council pools but are now members of private clubs.
Cheshire East would do well to find out why people prefer to pay massively inflated fees to using their local council owned pool.
Why do families pay extraordinary prices to be
members of private facilities when they could use their local council pool for a fraction of the cost?
I think a good look at the facts and figures is in order. Exactly why are private health clubs booming, despite the expense, when council owned facilities
are struggling to survive? Cash is in desperately short supply at the moment so now would be a good time to remind people of the price difference between council and privately owned pools.
Let’s not wait until we have no public pools left.