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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.

The following pages are maintained by the SAVE LADYWELL POOL CAMPAIGN who can be contacted on ladywellpool@hotmail.com

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 Fr, Jan 12, 2007

Bring Back Democracy


The first public meeting of the campaign that wants to replace the current system of the Directly Elected Executive Mayor with the alternative system of the Leader of the Council elected by the Council and accountable to it will take place at the Ladywell Leisure Centre on Monday 15th January at 8 pm. ...read more...
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Mayor nods to poor project

On Wednesday 10th January 2007 Mayor Bullock decided not to ask any awkward question and approved the document on the new pool put under his nose (or nodded as a News Shopper title well described our system of governance).

Cabinet Member for Community Cllr Best said that the project demonstrates the Council's commitment to improve the town centre and leisure and sports facilities available.

One officer pointed out that a considerable number had not responded to the question about the size of the pool. Also there were concerns by the public the size of the pool did not match the number of residents.

Does this mean that there will be a rethink of this leisure centre since concerns were reported or does it mean that there will be no rethink since Cllr Best thinks that everything's fine and dandy? We're not given to know and the fear is that out of the limelight the project is pushed forward untouched regardless of comments that find their only life in the minutes of meetings.

We need all parts of our community to lobby for a substantial improvement, as it stands now this proposal represents an unacceptable loss of quality of sports and leisure provision, a damage to quality of life in this part of the Borough and a once-in-a-lifetime missed opportunity.

How anybody at London Borough of Lewisham thought that this exceedingly poor proposal would have passed unnoticed is beyond our understanding.
This document wants to replace the spacious, airy and bright pool at Ladywell Leisure Centre with an undersized pool without deep end in the shady courtyard of a cluster of blocks of flats (see the plan here).
Quite a way from Mayor Bullock's vision of two years ago:

"...I want this development to be the flagship leisure facility for this borough comprising two full swimming pools, one as a public swimming pool and one for structured lessons and training. We will look at incorporating a competition diving feature alongside the pools..."

Mayor Bullock 2004
(Council's brochure "Active, healthy and fun - leisure in Lewisham")

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