Final decision due on new Walsall swimming pools
A final decision over whether cash-strapped Walsall Council should proceed with plans to build two new swimming pools in a move to improve leisure facilities will be made this week.
Planners have already approved schemes to rebuild the existing baths and gyms at Oak Park, in Lichfield Road Walsall Wood, and at High Street, in Bloxwich.
Leisure chiefs have prepared four options including builder smaller centres in a bid to save money, after it emerged that costs had rocketed by £3 million to nearly £24m. The cabinet will consider the projects on Wednesday.
The options are to build two new leisure centres at Oak Park and Bloxwich; build a new leisure centre at Oak Park and carry out a £2m refurbishment at Bloxwich; build a new leisure centre at Oak Park and carry out a feasibility study looking at what can be provided at Bloxwich without encroaching onto nearby Leamore Park; build two new smaller leisure centres at Oak Park and Bloxwich.
