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Article: pounds 3.5m refurb for Wyndley ... I think POOLS CRISIS: Leisure chief Ray Hassall begins to make up his mind over funding
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- July 12, 2007
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TROUBLED Birmingham leisure chief Coun Ray Hassall today revealed
he wants to opt for a pounds 3.5 million refurb for a city swimming
pool... if he can persuade the council to find the money.
Increasingly under pressure to find a solution to the crumbling
Wyndley baths, in Sutton Coldfield, Coun Hassall (Lib Dem, Perry
Barr) now wants to start a quality patch and repair job. It's the
cheapest of several options that have been touted for the site, one
of which included bull-dozing it and replacing it with a brand new
leisure facility costing up to pounds 30 million.
But the promised refurbishment is still not a water-tight
guarantee, as Coun Hassall still has to persuade his cabinet ...