The Department of Education, Sport and Culture has made a recommendation to close the Southern Swimming Pool – this motion will be put to Tynwald vote at the end of February and a vote by MHKs and the Legislative Council will decide its fate.
The decision has been made for ‘financial reasons’, with the department suggesting it would cost around half a million pounds to keep it afloat.
A report looking into ‘Regional Sports Hubs’ by the Department of Infrastructure and the DESC says there’s ‘no situation’ where this amount of money could be found.
Juan McGuinness is the Chair of the Northern Local Authority Swimming Pool Board - he said the regional pools were never designed to be money makers:
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