Posted: 24/11/2004; 09:59:44 
Update: the campaign has been won!
Unfortunately the Council has now come public with the plan for the Leisure Centre that is supposed to replace Ladywell Pool in a few years time and this plan is unacceptably poor.We are now fighting for a decent centre to replace Ladywell Pool. With the current offer we are better off with Ladywell. The following is the "About us" page as we wrote it in 2004. -------------------
The Save Ladywell Pool campaign is a group of Lewisham residents and users of the Ladywell Leisure Centre that formed spontaneously after the announcement by the Mayor of Lewisham that the Council intends to demolish the LLC in 2007 and to build a replacement in 2010.
During the first public meeting on the 23rd July 2004 we decided on an objective for the campaign and started to outline the guidelines for our action.
The object of the campaign is to force the Council to keep the Ladywell Leisure Centre open until the new facility is effectively delivered.
During the summer of 2004 we have collected over 5300 signatures.
Sadly when we delivered them to the Mayor he took little notice of them and has since rejected any alternatives to the Council's own plans.
There are many more steps that the Council have to take before effectively being allowed to demolish the Ladywell Leisure Centre.
We are determined to fight the Council at every step. And we are doing it.
We can't allow them to leave a borough with a population of 250,000 without a decent swimming pool and leisure centre for at least (but very probably more) 3 years.
picture: Councillor LeFevre delivers the signatures to the Chief Executive, on the right of the picture Mayor Steve Bullock
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