Comments on: Letter: Use or lose your pool http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/11/10/letter-use-or-lose-your-pool/ Shropshire News - Midlands News - Breaking News UK Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:16:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: M G Adkins http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/11/10/letter-use-or-lose-your-pool/#comment-79831 M G Adkins Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:18:26 +0000 http://www.shropshirestar.com/?p=79901#comment-79831 Mel is right that far too few people use Wem pool. However under the present arrangements where it pays its own way it is not viable to open the pool for public swimming for a lot of the time. Other pools in the region have a pattern of morning swims before 9.00 am, an hour at lunchtime and swimming after 6.00 pm sometimes up to 10.00. Wem pool cannot do this as the costs would be too high. As a result the general public get out of the habit of swimming regularly and do not attend, a vicious circle! The answer is to get more public funding for the pool to open at these times so that regular patterns of use can be built up. y.s. etc Mel is right that far too few people use Wem pool. However under the present arrangements where it pays its own way it is not viable to open the pool for public swimming for a lot of the time. Other pools in the region have a pattern of morning swims before 9.00 am, an hour at lunchtime and swimming after 6.00 pm sometimes up to 10.00. Wem pool cannot do this as the costs would be too high. As a result the general public get out of the habit of swimming regularly and do not attend, a vicious circle!
The answer is to get more public funding for the pool to open at these times so that regular patterns of use can be built up. y.s. etc

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