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In 2004Lewisham Council announced plans to demolish Ladywell Leisure Centre in 2007 - we saved it! The pool will stay open until the forecast replacement is ready.  Sadly the plan is awfully inadequate and instead of being a plan for a community sport and leisure centre it is a plan for a lifestyle pool for the new residential developments to be built in front of Lewisham Station.

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 Mo, Jul 25, 2005

Why not splash out on swimming?

The Times columnist and Southwark resident Janice Turner wrote an inspired article that expresses very eloquently what everybody's thinking and policy-makers are ignoring.

Janice Turner - The Times Online: "...excellent, local and affordable sport made the duty of every council, as it is in France could transform our porky offspring faster than an army of Jamie Olivers. It would reduce youth crime more effectively than 10,000 ASBOs. And, for those glory-seekers in government, it would throw millions more contenders into the pool of talent from which we choose our 2012 Olympic team..."

(Via The Times.) ...read more...

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