Save Seaton Pool

The website may have been quiet over the past few months, but we remain busy behind the scenes. As reported in the Herald, a meeting is being arranged between representatives of the “Save Seaton Pool” campaign and representatives of Plymouth City Council’s Conservative leadership. At the time of the local elections in May, we were […]

Well, the election results are in and “they” are out. The Labour Party majority on Plymouth City Council has been overturned and the Conservative Party are in the majority. We believe that the extremely bad showing of the Labour Party in the Plymouth area is due to a large extent to “their” grossly flawed decsion […]

The local elections on Thursday May 3rd give an opportunity to kick out the Labour councillors responsible for closing Seaton Pool. Many wards are expected to be very closely fought, and a single vote could make all the difference in some areas of Plymouth.
We believe that a power change within the Council would give the […]

Anyway, no diggers yet to be seen at the proposed Sharron Centre (yes, he must be going gaga to suggest such a name). However, the people of Plymouth do have two signs, one on Outland Road and one on Alma Road that promise the Sharron Centre in 2008. Probably this will be late 2008 of […]

You could not write a farce that matches up to Plymouth City Council’s incompetence. First they close Seaton Pool and then they close Plympton for 6 weeks for repairs. Now we hear that Central Park is to be closed for 6 weeks at Christmas. All the time we look for the signs of diggers digging […]

There are some contrasts in this posting. First of we carry a piece from the Evening Herald that was written by Mary O’Leary. In it she bemoans the lack of swimming facilities in Plymouth. Yes, just about right there. Mary also takes to task the South West Regional Destruction Agency for knocking down Seaton Pool […]

Scientists have established that 10% of global warming is due to the hot air coming from Tudor Evans and Plymouth City Council on the subject of the Life Centre. It might even develop into a new spectator sport (a bit like Sumo but more likely to end in a heart attack) where fat men bluster […]

It almost seems that the Friday 12/1/2007 edition of the Herald was solely devoted to the failures of Plymouth City Council and the lack of swimming pools for the people of Plymouth! First of all the front page news was that the Conservative group had withdrawn support for the Life Centre and were proposing a […]

Yes, next week Plympton pool closes for 6, 7, 8 or more weeks, depending on who you believe. That leaves just Central Park (with its occasional technical difficulties) available as a public swimming pool for 250,000 people. Just put it down to good planning by Plymouth City Council. With thanks to the Herald we carry […]

There has been a lot of swimming pool related news in the Plymouth area over the last week or so. The first bit of news is that the long awaited swimming strategy for Plymouth will not be available until 2007 (if it ever arrives). If it takes a year for Plymouth City Council to […]

What is the problem with the SWRDA and the Plymouth area? Closing swimming pools and destroying communities initially, and now destroying jobs in Saltash. Do they do the same in Exeter? The Herald carried the story about the SWRDA destroying jobs (which we reproduce below) and we know about the swimming pool. Another lot closing […]

Some people are still not happy about Seaton Pool being closed and the lack of swimming opportunities in Plymouth. How could this be? People are still writing letters to the Herald and complaining. Tsk. Also, the Evening Herald this week regurgitated the same old rubbish about the Life Centre. Perhaps there could be a survey […]

The wooden wall is still up at Seaton Pool and many of the people of Plymouth have no place to swim. See the link to the latest letters in the Evening Herald complaining about the overcrowding at Central Park. Plympton Pool is coming closer to the planned 5 week shutdown over Christmas so it will […]

Are you still listening Tudor? Only we were wondering when the masterplan for swimming in Plymouth was going to be available? Rumour has it that the plan (ho ho) will not be available until after Christmas (ho ho ho). I wonder if anyone believed the council when they said it would be available in a […]

Normally the Herald gives a fair and balanced view of Plymouth City Council incompetence. However, on page 4 of Saturday’s Evening Herald there was a grovelling piece on how wonderful swimming is in Plymouth since Seaton closed. Do PCC have to pay for this type of advertisement? And does anyone believe it? Probably not (and […]

Another fine day’s work by the SWRDA. So let’s get this right, we have the SWRDA who are funded out of our taxes knocking down (desperately needed) Plymouth swimming pools whilst they (mostly) live and work in the Exeter area. Let us hope that the political wind changes and the overblown bureaucracy that is the […]

Nobody, it would seem. So the big diggery thing for knocking down swimming pools has been stuck up at the pool for a week whilst the gas is being turned off. However, we can report that there was a protest against demolition up at the pool. This protest was carried by Carlton Westcountry television news. […]

And to think we almost forgot to include the story in the Evening Herald on 18-8-06 about the Fat Cats of the South West Regional Destruction Agency. We carry a link to the online Herald and also a transcript (just in case the link disappears). There seems to be an awful lot of money sloshing […]

And as the realisation that Plymouth does not have enough pools (and is not going to get a 50 metre pool) sinks in we are having another try at saving Seaton pool from demolition by the South West Regional Destruction Agency. The Conservative group on Plymouth City Council have been in the front of efforts […]

Luckily, the Department for Communities and Local Government has come to the aid of Seaton Pool. In accordance with the latest consultation document issued by the DCLG, planning permission is to be required to knock down, or change the use of any Sport and leisure building or facility. At the moment this document is out […]

OK, hands up anyone who believed a single word said by Peter Smith and the rest of the Labour Councillors on the subject of the Life Centre. Probably not many of the people who read the pages on this website. So, Plymouth has now shut a viable pool at Seaton whilst hopelessly trying to get […]

And so it has been announced that Seaton Pool will be demolished in the near future. With thanks to the Evening Herald we reproduce the story below. The final destruction of a popular and functioning community facility will be forever a stain on the records and consciences of those who allowed it to […]

And so another week passes without any sign of building work at Central Park. Will it be in 2012 or 2013 that the Life Centre is available? In the intervening 300 or so weeks the users of public swimming pools in Plymouth will have to suffer overcrowding and inconvenient times. Why could the council […]

The Council meeting on 11/7/06 did have, among the many items for discussion, a section on the proposed life centre for Central Park. Still in the realms of possibility of starting to move towards initial designs to support a future bid that may (or may not) get funding. In the meantime, the facilities at Central […]

The pool is still there. There is not much Life Centre building work going on at Central Park, although there was a story in the Evening Herald this week (the first mention about the Life Centre in local media for about a month). There is also a note from Fred on the ‘Have your say’ […]