Email recieved from Mark Ling ( mark.ling@icetransport.eu )
Hi Andy, I hope one of these is your correct email address ?
Thanks very much for visiting us at the heritage open days.
As mentioned, we’d be most pleased to give your members a tour of the pool.
Meantime, we have a most urgent favour. IBC have put out a Culture & Leisure needs survey. They will use results to shape next 15 years of strategy. We believe that restoring Broomhill pool should be THE priority. Please remember that Broomhill was built as a HEATED outdoor pool, and the restoration includes modern sustainable heating plant (so the pool can open 365 days pa).
The pool facility can be used for a multitude of leisure and cultural pursuits, benefiting the taxpayers of Ipswich; such as outdoor swimming, diving, canoeing, sub-aqua, wind-surfing, dinghy sailing, triathlon, water polo, model boating, outdoor theatre and arts, as well as providing a safe, secure, supervised social meeting place.
I have attached the link & listed arguments (for Broomhill) below; and would be really grateful if your membership can go on line and complete the IBC questionnaire (takes 10 minutes).
best regards, Mark
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IBC’s latest “Culture and Leisure Needs Analysis Survey” represents a landmark survey (and moment) for the future of leisure in Ipswich.
Just in case Ipswich Borough Council needs a gentle reminder, 18,500 petition signatures have already been registered seeking the re-opening of Broomhill Pool. The reason is that a restored Broomhill can deliver community cohesion - and access to healthy pursuits - in a deserving area of Ipswich.
So, after spending £58,000 on a feasibility study for Broomhill Pool; and with the Trust & public raising some £15,000 to provide all means of professional supporting analysis; IBC should therefore be in no doubt that:
1. The pool facility can be used for a multitude of leisure and cultural pursuits, benefiting the taxpayers of Ipswich; such as outdoor swimming, diving, canoeing, sub-aqua, wind-surfing, dinghy sailing, triathlon, water polo, model boating, outdoor theatre and arts, as well as providing a safe, secure, supervised social meeting place.
2. The public would like to see the grade 2 listed lido restored.
3. The facility does not have significant structural defects. It can be restored, with 9 months work, at a cost of just £3.9m uo to 10 times less than an IBC proposed new indoor pool at Portman Road (with up to 50-75% possibly coming from non-taxpayer funding). The pool can run without a loss.
4. The pool is East Anglia’s only 50m+ outdoor lido. It will be heated. It provides the most cost effective solution to meet Ipswich’s desperately needed, additional, swimming space (as identified in another IBC swimming needs assessment study);
The Trust remains resolute in its conviction that a restored Broomhill is an existing, low cost, answer to Ipswich’s future leisure needs. IBC should be safeguarding a tangible, immensely practical, low cost, grade 2 listed facility.
In conclusion, we believe that Broomhill Pool must be the top priority for IBC’s leisure and cultural strategy. So, we ask the good people of Ipswich that if you feel the same way, to please ensure your views are registered, and incorporated, into the Council's strategy, using the survey at: http://www.pmpconsult.com/uploads/documents/ipswich_cultural_and_leisure...
Mark Ling.
On behalf of The Broomhill Pool Trust
A restored Broomhill can deliver community cohesion - and access to healthy pursuits - in a deserving area of Ipswich.
• Broomhill Pool is an economical, practical asset and a unique attraction for Ipswich.
• Just one of twelve Grade 2 listed lidos in Great Britain.
• East Anglia’s last 50+ metre outdoor pool (165 ft x 60ft complying with all 1938 A.S.A & A.D.A requirements).
• East Anglia’s last Grade 2 listed lido.
• East Anglia’s last outdoor diving boards (believed to be the last surviving set of Wicksteed diving boards in the world).
• Ipswich’s last “moderne” style building.
• Originally heated to 70f/21c until the boilers were requisitioned for WW2. A restored Broomhill will have sustainable and economical energy heating; and could open 6-9 months pa.
• Could be restored at a cost of just £3.9m (with up to 50-75% possibly coming from non-taxpayer funding).
• A heritage goldmine; cherished and loved by Ipswich people.
• The original birth place of Ipswich Town Football Club who played their first matches 1878-1888 before moving to Portman Road.
• The land was owned by the Sherrington family who founded Ipswich Town Football Club. The land was sold to the Borough of Ipswich for park land in 1925. The pool is built within Broomhill Park.
• Sherrington Road is named after Ipswich schoolboy Sir Charles Scott Sherrington who won the 1932 Nobel Prize for medicine; and became OM (Order of Merit, one of Britain’s highest honours). He lived at Valley Road.
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