Knock the place down it’s infested with vermin. We saw rats running around on at least 4 different occasions.

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Have only recently started using the Quarry last year and I can only begin to imagine what it must have been like in it’s hey day. It’s obviously on it’s way out despite, what seems to me, a valiant effort from the staff and desperately needs replacing.

It’s criminal that the funding has been lost, Shrewsbury could be the proud owner of a fantastic new swimming facility, properly designed and built at the Sports Village it would be a boon to the town. As it is at the minute, much loved though it is, it’s just not in the right place.

As for having your belongings stolen from your locker Jade, that’s obviously a distressing thing to happen to anyone but to hope that customers have stopped using the facilities resulting in many job losses is just bitter and downright unpleasant.

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why was the monies used for other projects,

I would of thought the obviuos soluction to this is to sell the original site to build a new council offices instead of moving or descremating the town’s quarry beautiful area,
why they need more offices when the shirehall should be made adequate etc,
with the money from the sale of the towns bath they should build a new swimming pool on the buisiness side end of town nr charlies.b+q etc, with adequate free parking etc to encourage more people to used the facilities.
are the councilers complete morons..
answers on a post card.

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Well thats a real shame, the facilities are inadequate for a town of this size.
I imagine more residents could be persuaded to partake in a splash if the place wasn’t so grotty. The intense waft of what can only be described as eau de human waste that hits me every week as I enter the changing rooms is enough to make me puke but then I’d have to go and stick my head down the toilet emanating the stench. There’s better ventilation in my dilapidated Victorian bathroom. Someone needs to take a big vat of bleach to the place.

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I’m dismayed at this news, although hardly surprised that the funding has been frittered away elsewhere(most likely). And where has it gone?!!!

Not only does this send out a poor message to families and children about successive governments’ lack of real desire to do anything about obesity and the health of the nation, but for people like me with long-term , life-limiting respiratory illness I (and others) rely on affordable, good quality, easily accessible, hygienic and well-maintained swimming facilities to responsibly look after my health and save the NHS unnecessary expense!

As is too often the case, people making such decisions to divert funding have the luxury of being able to take their good health for granted and so have no concept of what this means to us who would really benefit and need good swimming facilities.

very frustrated!

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well lets get some money off oswestry or market drayton and spend it on shrewsbury then, we’re all one big happily family now right???

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Driver, Go down to the Sundorne Sports Village and see all the rubbish that is left behind after football matches. When you hire a football pitch you should be made to leave it as you found it, why should the rate payers have to pick up the bill for clearing the rubbish up.

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Hi Sarah

I visit the faciliity several times a week, and would say that ok, they can never be spotless due to the ammount of people using them not forgeting we come in from out side so bringing in debris on our shoes. I can remember one occasion when the staff were having to clean toilet paper which had been thrown on the walls. this would surley put a strain on the resourses. I would say that if I was to find the changing room in a mess im sure if you informed a pool attendant they would clean it up

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