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Phone: 01843 577120
Email: hannah.thorpe@
thanet.gov.uk
Consultation: Get in the Swim!
This consultation is now closed. Results will be
available shortly.
What type of swimming facilities would you like to see in
Thanet in the future?
That’s what Thanet Council is now asking local people and
it couldn’t be easier to give your views.
Pick up a questionnaire:
- Spring 2007 issue of Thanet Matters on page 9
- Council offices in Margate
- local libraries
- public swimming and leisure centers
- fill in Swimming Pool Questionnaire online
This is an important issue, as the existing Ramsgate Swimming
Pool is in urgent need of replacement and the pool at Hartsdown
Leisure Centre only has three to four more years of life left in
it.
The Council asked for people’s views last year about what should
replace the Ramsgate pool and more than 500 questionnaires were
completed. Of those, nearly 70% said that they wanted a swimming
pool which had both recreational facilities, such as small slides,
along with a 25 metre pool and a teaching pool.
These results led to three potential options for the future of
swimming in Thanet:
- Option 1 – rebuild or refurbish the existing
sites. Result - closure of
Ramsgate Pool for 18 months and no new leisure
facilities.
- Option 2 – rebuild Ramsgate pool next to the
Sports Centre and refurbish Hartsdown Leisure
Centre. Result - probably no
new leisure facilities, as not enough space at either
site.
- Option 3 – a new pool at the Marlowe Academy,
with an eight lane 25 metre competition standard pool, a teaching
pool and leisure pool, with river rapids, slide and water
jets. Result - closure of Ramsgate Swimming Pool and Hartsdown
Leisure Centre.
That’s the position the Council has reached and now we need to
know what you think. Fill in a survey to ensure that
your views on this issue are heard.
The prize:
Fill in your name and number on the survey for a chance to win
an individual 14 month gold membership to Thanet Leisureforce’s
indoor leisure facilities.
Prize includes:
- free use of the Fit Force studio, swimming pool and sauna at
Hartsdown
- free use of the fitness suite and swimming pool at
Ramsgate
- free induction, personal programme, use of the fitness suite
and aerobics classes at Ramsgate Sports Centre
For more information or help completing your questionnaire
please mail
to:Hannah.thorpe@thanet.gov.uk
- Return your survey by Friday 30 March
2007.