Letter: Use or lose your pool
Tuesday 10th November 2009, 9:30AM GMT.
There wasahard-fought campaign to save Wem's swimming pool. So why are people not using it?
Letter: As a frequent user of Wem swimming pool, I was astonished to hear that over half term only one person attended two free sessions for under 17s.
Several years ago more than 800 people attended a meeting to save Wem pool after the council pulled the funding. In the words of Delia Smith: “Where are you? Let’s be having you.”
Where have you gone, if we don’t use it we will use it.
Mal Evans
Wem
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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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