Third Pool in Brent
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Dear Gerry Kiefer
We the undersigned call on Brent Council to review its decision on October 2011.
In November 2008 the Executive endorsed the Planning for Active Sport and Recreation Facilities Strategy 2008 – 2021. As such, Members agreed that the number one priority would be the provision of a third swimming pool with other sports, health and fitness facilities that serves the North of the Borough. The Planning for Active Sport and Recreation Facilities Strategy (Facilities Strategy) recognised that the majority of Brent’s sports centres are aging and need to be replaced or redeveloped so that they are ‘fit for purpose’. It also recognised that there is a clear need to provide additional facilities to meet the demands and expectations of current and future local people and without good standard provision, appropriately located and affordable to the community, Brent is likely to remain one of the most inactive Borough’s in London and England. The Facilities Strategy showed that over fifty percent of the Borough’s population live further than 20 minute walk time from a public pool and that in order to have the greatest impact the first priority to improve sports facilities in the Borough would be the provision of the pool that serves the north of the Borough. The strategy also recognises that there is a need for a fourth pool in Brent, particularly as regeneration areas develop and Brent’s population expands. The Council has power pursuant to section 19 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 to provide such recreational facilities as it thinks fit. This power includes the power to provide buildings, equipment and assistance of any kind.
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