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Sports village to replace Shrewsbury’s Quarry Pool?
Tuesday 20th July 2010, 6:00PM BST.
A multi-million pound swimming pool could be built at Shrewsbury’s Sports Village as a replacement for the town’s Quarry pool, a council leisure chief said today.
Councillor Stephen Charmley, Shropshire Council cabinet member for leisure, said the £10 million venue was the “obvious” site to consider if an out-of-town replacement was the preferred choice.
He said building it on land next to the Sports Village in Sundorne Road would also cut costs as there would be no need to create new changing or gym facilities. Mr Charmley said there was also extensive car parking.
Shropshire Council and the former Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council spent three years discussing the future of the current pool site but officials today said they were still a long way off making a decision.
Three options have previously been suggested including a refurbishment of the Quarry pool costing about £9.6 million, a demolition and rebuild for about £7.75 million or building an “out of town” site at a cost of about £7.6 million
However, Mr Charmley said these figures were now out-of-date and he has commissioned officers to draw up a new report with full costings to be ready in about six months.
He said he wanted a “clear way forward” to be decided as soon as possible.
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this is eminently sensible, a greenfield site will be cheaper than redeveloping the Quarry plus its easier to build on green sites and build in new modern greener technology unlike retrofitting old buildings, its in a deprived ward so good for helping health inequalities and it will be very accessible from the road too. the cost will be very much lower because the site of the current pool overlooking in the Quarry Park must be worth millions of pounds for luxury housing im sure
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the only reason iv not been to the quarry swimming centre for 20 years is because of the parking
An out of town centre would be great.. new and free parking… many many more people would use it
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i would not agree to it being out of town the whole concept of sustainable travel is to have facilities centrally that you can access on foot or by bus, out of town means congestion elsewhere and our town centre is already dying economically
No no no
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why not it could be heated by the battlefield incinerator – better than wasting all the heat to the atmosphere – wheres the money coming from now though?
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Shropshire Council and the former Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council spent three years discussing the future of the current pool site but officials today said they were still a long way off making a decision.
You lot make me tear my hair out!
If retailers have to demonstrate sustainability and green credentials for transport why not the Council?
Quarry Pool is accessible to all
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surely the whole
What ever happens for me the important thing is high quality design and heritage, it should look better for the Quarry and the town centre conservation zone, lets have some real stone cladding at very least
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Ahhhh a good idea at last OUT OF TOWN what good is it where it is now ?.Now could some people stop sitting around eating the buffets and make a decision THANK YOU.
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Makes perfect sense, the land currently occupying the Quarry pool can be sold to a developer for loads more money than a patch of land in sundorne. imagine how many more sandwiches that will buy for meetings..
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here here
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And there won’t be a two year delay while the STCRA sharpen their problem pencils
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I can’t wait to see some artificial historic edifices built to blend in with the Quarry ambience.
Take the fat pillars at the bottom of the Cop don’t they just look gorgeous? Such a reminder of the real thing in Greece!
What would be good would be some state of the art hot houses as a backdrop to the Quarry and flower show with a beautiful maybe orangery style restaurant perhaps.
It could be very modern and work well though, like a glass pavillion.
More pastiche, plastic houses far more likely to be submitted.
A swimming pool by the football stadium that we did not want over here would have been nice for us who can’t afford Bannatyne this side of town.
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i like the pillars on century house, they look pretty realistic and good to me much better than modern design styles
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the whole point of the middle of town is so its on a bus route and or walkable becuase its core customers are the very young and the very old, surely they are not that ignorant to assume salopians all drive? it cannot be out of town it would be a traffic nightmare and completely unsustainable travel and so it would never get planning permission
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And to those who complain about parking in the Town Centre. Surely your going to the Swimming Pool for exercise, therefore you shouldn’t mind the walk from Frankwell car park or the bus/train station! I isn’t that far!
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good point tom
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and theres me thinking we were supposed to be saving public money. Aren’t we in an era of ‘make do and mend’?
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The pool should be moved to the sports Village. There are plenty of buses that run that way, and its not that long a walk from the train station.
Too many people are scared of change. At least all the facilities will be under one roof.
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Hugh f show me one old building with pillars like those. They ARE modern, made of resin, hollow with a seam running up the side.
They look realistic?
They look tacky.
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how the hell is this going to be paid for ?
these people are living in cloud cuckoo land, there are cuts everywhere and they want to build a multimillion pound pool! Idiots
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The swimming bath next to the Quarry is a really good fit.
The problem with some people is that they live in the past. Out of town developments? “Hello! Hello! This is a call from the 1980s! Let’s build on green field sites!”
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I don’t agree that any new pool should be on a greenfield site, a town centre location is more accesible by public transport for the majority of people.
If it does need to be on a greenfield site, why not on the south side of town? Not everyone here is rich enough to afford the petrol for the near 20 mile round trips to the facilities (sports village, lantern, recycling centre) that keep being built only on the north side.
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The Quarry Swimming pool should remain in its central location which is ideal for all.
It would be short sighted insanity to move it to the sports village in an era when we should be moving away from “Out of Town” “Retail Park style” developments.
The sports village would mean a four bus round trip for many people. Some people should stop thinking with their accelarator pedals and air con.
I do not drive and I take my young daughter swimming at least twice a week. Relocation to the sports village would render this impractical not only for me but for many others.
The Quarry facility goes hand in hand with the park and its beautiful surroundings. It provides a focal point for activities.
Moving it would be a huge mistake.
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I agree, moving the swimming pool away from the Quarry would be a mistake. Many people use the pool and then use the lovely park or the play area, etc. Parents can drop children at the pool and then go on to the shops. Plenty of parking in Frankwell carpark or park and ride to Shoplatch – not far. The paddling pool is also a fantastic and free facility for children at this time of year. Keep the swimming pool where it is.
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Would the Quarry paddling pool have to go to?
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well said mate i agree
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i agree with dominics sensible comments
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i would like it on the south side for me sainsburys and the golf course area by bannatynes end of town could use an affordable public facility (it costs £500 per annum to be a member of Bannatynes)
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Perfectly good swimming pool’s in Telford for the people of Shrewsbury to use. This is a wast of money and should be spent building new incinerators in Shrewsbury to serve the people of Shropshire
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silly comment obviously designed to annoy, we dont want an incinerator in shrewsbury, save the money for popular and needed developments like a pool
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i would prefer the demolition and rebuid option on the existing site
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You should use rebewable energy to heat it that would save millions on electric bills and heating all that water
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thats just externalising the cost to people and roads, its not really cheaper to build out of town because whatever the council saves on construction costs, it will cost be £5 a pop just to drive out there
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we could use a new pool in other parts of the county too really but life is so Shrewsbury centric since this terrible new unitary council took over
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its a hypothetical debate, it will never get built until theres another labour government as they said “there is no money left” well none that the tories are prepared to spend
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stupid idea the councillor is not even from shrewsbury what gives him a right to decide?
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if we build the swimming pool there then all the little chavvy scumbags will be there and then people like me would be dicouraged to go because all the chavs would take the mick outta me which is unfair .i used to go evey weekend but then people from my school saw me and that made me consious and that made me not go anymore.Plus the news system is rubbish you get one hour to swim thts not long enough in my opinion !
bad idea over .
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