last week while I was on my hols I read in the wakey express a section that the sun lane baths may not happen there, it is still open to be place elsewhere, did anybody else see this?

reason being as I'm just trekking off to barnsley's metrodome as the the best around here,

come on WMDC get your act together

U mean we aren't getting the 2nd hand pool from Manchester then???

no it said something like that its open to other areas for development, came from counciller jefferies I think, wish I still had it threw it in the recycle while on hol

That land isnt there anymore is it?

Or is it still the car park?

Anyway the public swimming facilities are atrocious however I also read in wakey express that a collage within the district are getting a 25m pool from sheffield pool.

Get it sorted



BTW snowie normy half decent if you want purely swimming facilities rather than rides and the like.

www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/ ... 5137558.jp found it on the wakey express site

www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/ ... 5137558.jp found it on the wakey express site

kids want the slides and the waves

and me of course

Thought as much

just like to leave you thinking on this one, could the new stadium hold their own privately run swimming baths

that would be brill new fans could be born from just visiting the the baths

You want to to be careful posting on what kids want!!!!

The 'second hand' pool from Manchester is to be located in Hemsworth, deal confirmed last Tuesday.

sorry mate but that willl never happen anywhere, pools lose a fortune on their own.

What do people want? A proper swimming pool or one with slides and gimmicks?

actually, and you wont like this, generally people want a swimming pool, but dont want either to pay what it would take in entrance fees to make it break even, or accept a rise in leisure costs from a council to subsidise it.

swimming can just be boring on its own, as you put it slides and gimmicks gets the young kids enjoying the water which in turn can develop confidence in the water,
I would like something similar to the metrodome but that's my preference

The problem is that the council have done the feasibility studies and found out that stand alone swimming pools don't make money whereas those incorporated into say a 'sports village' are more likely to. On the back of this they sanctioned the re-building of Sun Lane as a stand alone pool.

Still trying to get over my son saying that the black hole slide thing at Metrodome was "tame" - still trying to get the trunks back out of my !!!