| |
| |
Dipping a toe in the water to return Hendy lido facility |
|
 |
|
| |
A survey is to be carried out on the future viability of returning Hendy Pool to use. Financial assistance of £9,500 towards the study to investigate the development potential of the lido facility is being given by Carmarthenshire County Council. The lido is beyond economic repair and would need to be replaced with a new structure costing £250,000, engineers have said...
|
|
|
|
| |
|
 |
|
Outdoor pool too costly to reopen |
|
| |
One of the last lidos in Wales is set to close for good after engineers said it was 'beyond economical repair...
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
Community rallies in bid to save lido |
|
 |
|
| |
A BID to save one of Wales’ last remaining lidos will come a step closer to success today after campaigners raised £14,000 to save a historic outdoor pool.
Hendy outdoor swimming pool near Llanelli has been closed since 2002 after Carmarthenshire County Council decided it was no longer financially viable.
Only one now remains open in Wales, in Brynaman in the Amman Valley...
|
|
|
|
| |
|
 |
|
Lido seeks cash lifeline or risks going under |
|
| |
ONE of the last lidos in Wales will be filled in this spring if a planned deal to save it falls by the wayside.
The local authority is denying backing out of the agreement to help campaigners trying to save one of the last of the historic outdoor pools in Wales...
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
Bid to revive historic pool |
|
|
|
| |
A survey is to be carried out on the future viability of returning Hendy Pool to use. Financial assistance of £9,500 towards the study to investigate the development potential of the lido facility is being given by Carmarthenshire County Council. The lido is beyond economic repair and would need to be replaced with a new structure costing £250,000, engineers have said...
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
County may throw lido a cash life-belt |
|
| |
ONE of the last lidos in Wales could be saved after a council started backtracking on plans to close it. Hendy Pool in Carmarthenshire was set to close permanently after engineers said it was "beyond economical repair". But the determination of campaigners was demonstrated this week when they turned down a council offer to sell them the pool for a pound....
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
Splash out and save our outdoor pool, say villagers |
|
|
|
| |
AN outdoor swimming pool, built with pride by unemployed miners, has given generations of families summers of fun and exercise.But more than 70 years after it first opened, Hendy Pool's future - in a village with no amenities for children - hangs in the balance as Carmarthenshire County Council decides its final fate...
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
 |
|
|
|
| |
EVERY single one of Hendy's residents is expected to sign a petition urging the county council to help save part of the village's history.The village outdoor pool or lido, which was dug in the 1920s by jobless miners paid five Woodbines or a bar of Cadbury's chocolate each day, was forced to close because of weather damage in 2002 and has not been opened since...
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
Pool replacement to cost a six-figure sum |
|
|
|
| |
RESULTS of a survey have shown that Hendy Pool will cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to replace.The facility is beyond economical repair and would need to be replaced with a new structure, engineers have recommended...
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
 |
|
Olympic costs could spiral out of control, says spending watchdog |
|
| |
Whilst billions are poured into the Games, we are seeing a situation where either:- funding for local sport is constantly under attack, or:- the facility itself is coveted by a developer and simply closed or bulldozed.
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
Swimming pool closures are national disgrace
|
|
 |
|
| |
The Daily Telegraph exposes the neglect and the wilful disregard for swimming pools in this country. |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Hendy feasibilty study |
|
| |
I recently added a comment to the times on line article which sally
had previously mentioned, because our feasibility study is at a
public meeting stage next week?
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
PLAN TO SAVE LIDO READY TO BE FLOATED |
|
 |
|
| |
The Campaign to save a Llanelli lido is being stepped up this week with a public meeting to discuss the best way forward - but hopes of a new pool appear to be slim.Hendy Pool was built in 1932 by unemployed miners and proved a big splash with generations of local children until it closed abruptly in 2002, after cracks appeared in its walls.
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
