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Lambeth Closes Another Swimming Pool - Only One to Go for the Full Set
January 12, 2010 6:02 PM
No sooner had swimmers absorbed the shock announcement that the Streatham Leisure Centre had closed without warning in November and been directed to towards Clapham Pool as an alternative than the news that everyone has been dreading has just been announced.
Clapham Pool is to close for two years starting on the 15th January 2010.
Labour ran a mischievous campaign against the Liberal Democrats around the time of the 2006 local elections alleging that we planned to close Clapham Pool. In fact those sensible proposals to build a new Leisure Centre on the Mary Seacole House site would have kept the existing Clapham Pool operating while a new one was built.
Now Labour is reneging on its promise to voters to keep Clapham Swimming.
Even Brixton Recreation Centre in a masterly stroke of (dis)organisation will close its 'wetside' changing rooms on January 18th for at least two whole months for refurbishment work.
On Lambeth's website Streatham Pool users are still being directed to Clapham, while Clapham users are simply left to work it out for themselves.
What a hopeless muddle. Maybe Labour's grand strategists will be making the duck pond on Clapham Common available?