WALTHAMSTOW: Re-opening of pool delayed by few days (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

WALTHAMSTOW: Re-opening of pool delayed by few days

11:53am Friday 12th March 2010 in

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THE re-opening of Waltham Forest's best training pool will be delayed for few days.

A deal has been struck to re-open the pool at Waltham Forest College, in Forest Road, Walthamstow, after it was threatened with permanent closure.

Private firm Active Leisure Management (ALM) has stepped in to save the ageing facility at Waltham Forest College, in Forest Road, Walthamstow.

It was due to re-open on Monday, but because of a delay to a delivery of chemicals, will now be postponed for a few days., A limited number of sessions for local groups will be held at the pool, with the possibility that opening hours may be increased at a later date.

ALM will split running costs with Tritons swimming club and Friends of the Pool (FOTP), which fought to keep the facility open.

Swimmers, including Olympic hopefuls from the borough, say the pool is the best training facility of its kind in the borough as it offers unrestricted lane swimming.

College bosses refused to divert cash from teaching in 2009, after an expected cash injection to redevelop the site failed to materialise.

The pool was originally earmarked for closure in 2007 before Waltham Forest Council stepped in to broker a two-year deal with its sports centre operator, Greenwich Leisure Ltd.

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