Wolverhampton Swimming and Fitness Centre pool to shut for four months
The main pool at Wolverhampton Swimming and Fitness Centre will close for almost four months for 'essential' repairs - just eight years after the £13million complex opened.
Lessons will be cancelled and hundreds of members who pay by direct debit will have either be given discounts, have their membership extended or payments frozen.
Bosses at the Wednesfield centre, which is managed by Places for People Leisure, said work to replace the pool base and surrounding tiles was needed.
It will be closed from September 8 until December 24.
But the leisure pools and studio pool at the Bentley Bridge site will remain open.
A statement from the company said: "We do of course recognise this is a frustrating situation for our customers, and we would like to apologise for the inconvenience this matter is causing and thank you for your on-going patience and custom."
The leisure waters - including a parasol, air geyser, lagoon burst, bubble area and lazy river, will open from 9am-10pm during weekdays. This will include the use of the pool-side health suite. The water slides and water jets will operate during the normal time of 10am-9pm during school holidays and revert back to 4pm-9pm term time.
The studio pool will open from 7am - 9am weekdays for lane swimming.
Direct debit payments for swimming lessons in the main pool will be frozen from September 2014 and then automatically reactivate on the January 1 next year.
Those who pay by cash will have their courses for the cancelled lessons automatically extended.
Swim only members will have a 50 per cent discount on their direct debits for the closed period.
Those who pay fully in advance will have their membership extended by three months.
All inclusive direct debit members will get a 20 per cent discount and those who pay in advance will get a two month extension.
Places for People Leisure took over the leisure centre management firm DC Leisure.
Together with Wolverhampton City Council, the two organisations formed a partnership to open the £13million swimming and fitness centre in 2006 under a private finance initiative that will cost more than £50m by the time it is paid off over 30 years.
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