This pool is always busy Should be kept open No pool for miles around
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Branwen Morgan
1 year ago
Have a look at the healthy cities website - closing this centre is against government KPIs relating to health/well-being, closing the gap and equity. Obesity rates are rising - we need to do more not less to help provide facilities that support a healthy lifestyle.
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Claire Killick
1 year ago
This pool must not close!
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Faz
1 year ago
Please keep pool open too costly to redevelop alternatuve
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Maris Luidmanis
2 years ago
We need more swimming pool space, not less, especially if we have a government forcing increased population density on us. We need 50m pools & deep water for waterpolo, diving, competition training & swimming, not just ‘waterspace’ designed by accountants & lazy politicians. Keep & build more pools for active people and which have sufficient & proper parking for cars and bikes, because that’s reality.
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Sylvia Costello
2 years ago
This is the closet pool near my home.
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Narbeh Shirvanian
3 years ago
We have been using the aquatic centre for 3 generations in our family. We need the public pool to remain in the area
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Julie Harris
3 years ago
It would be criminal to remove this pool. The Northern Beaches are so far behind most other areas in NSW. It’s important for training swimmers and learn to swim. We have water all around us so we need to be safe. The Parramatta pool was removed to make way for a bigger stadium and the poor residents had to wait 3 years for another pool.
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Mark
4 years ago
As one of the very few pools that have diving boards, the loss of this centre would have a devastating impact on future competitive divers and also future competitive swimmers.
The school has been where it was for a very long time and there is no need to move, however, if there is, there are many locations around the area that it can be moved to without the need to impact the very important Warringah Aquatic Centre.
The problem is there will be a promise to rebuild the centre, but many years will pass all the while disadvantaging future generations of divers and swimmers. This has happened at Parramatta where they took the aquatic centre away because of a stadium, they are still waiting for the new aquatic centre many years down the track with no intention of putting back diving boards.
Australia wants to be competitive in these sport’s, so it is imperative that such facilities remain.
If the school must be here, then the existing aquatic centre would be required to remain in operation until such time the new aquatic centre was built with pools and diving boards (preferably upto 10 m), and only then could the school be built at the existing site.
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Chris Dimock
5 years ago
Northern Beaches Hospital has caused enough local disruption already ! We should retain recreational facilities for local residents.
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Jacob Treder
5 years ago
Where will be it be relocated? Need an indoor 50m pool on the beaches
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Anonymous
5 years ago
It smells like another beacon hill
High school debacle
Should have shut forest high instead
Corruption rules northern beaches
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Alice
9 years ago
This is stupid, why spend such large amounts of time and effort renovating frenchs forest, such a beautiful place, into the new Chatswood, devoid of trees and environmental friendliness.
Surely the state governments money would be better spent in developing coastal cities such as Newcastle and Wollongong and following suit of successful European cities, link them by high speed trains.
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Corinne canter
9 years ago
Please keep the pool open
In a country where drownings continue to happen-why would you want to close the facilities where lessons and swim
Fitness happen- this is a community hub
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Nigel Playle
9 years ago
This is such a great facility for the community which my family and I use on a regular basis (2 or 3 times a week). We cannot be left without a pool. It would be such a waste to remove such an important community facility.
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Stewart Hutson
9 years ago
Grew up swimming there as a young child, I'm nostalgic thinking about it. Don't demolish it give it life!
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Justin Hooley
9 years ago
I have signed this petition because I issue the pool regularly and don't want to closed. This in the only indoor 50m pool on the Northern beaches and given how long it took for Manly to be redeveloped (including he approval process) I would not propose moving this to another site.
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Lisa Mozes
9 years ago
My 3 children are in catchment and will be going to Forest High School but all three also use the Aquatic centre regularly. my eldest son (Harry 10) twice a week for squad. whatever replaces this centre will not be anything like the current centre it won't compare in scale to this one. there's plenty of crown land around the site that the school can be built on please do not bulldoze this fantastic bit of infrastructure. the private developers proposal will be nothing like this and with the population growth on the Northern Beaches we need this indoor 50 meter pool more than ever with its indoor seating capacity for 500 spectators we need this pool as well as a new high school if you are to redevelop the current high school site...
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J Pinnington
9 years ago
This is a much needed and frequently used facility. It's one of the few accessible local 50m pools
Leave this beauty intact!
This pool is always busy Should be kept open No pool for miles around
Have a look at the healthy cities website - closing this centre is against government KPIs relating to health/well-being, closing the gap and equity. Obesity rates are rising - we need to do more not less to help provide facilities that support a healthy lifestyle.
This pool must not close!
Please keep pool open too costly to redevelop alternatuve
We need more swimming pool space, not less, especially if we have a government forcing increased population density on us. We need 50m pools & deep water for waterpolo, diving, competition training & swimming, not just ‘waterspace’ designed by accountants & lazy politicians. Keep & build more pools for active people and which have sufficient & proper parking for cars and bikes, because that’s reality.
This is the closet pool near my home.
We have been using the aquatic centre for 3 generations in our family. We need the public pool to remain in the area
It would be criminal to remove this pool. The Northern Beaches are so far behind most other areas in NSW. It’s important for training swimmers and learn to swim. We have water all around us so we need to be safe. The Parramatta pool was removed to make way for a bigger stadium and the poor residents had to wait 3 years for another pool.
As one of the very few pools that have diving boards, the loss of this centre would have a devastating impact on future competitive divers and also future competitive swimmers. The school has been where it was for a very long time and there is no need to move, however, if there is, there are many locations around the area that it can be moved to without the need to impact the very important Warringah Aquatic Centre. The problem is there will be a promise to rebuild the centre, but many years will pass all the while disadvantaging future generations of divers and swimmers. This has happened at Parramatta where they took the aquatic centre away because of a stadium, they are still waiting for the new aquatic centre many years down the track with no intention of putting back diving boards. Australia wants to be competitive in these sport’s, so it is imperative that such facilities remain. If the school must be here, then the existing aquatic centre would be required to remain in operation until such time the new aquatic centre was built with pools and diving boards (preferably upto 10 m), and only then could the school be built at the existing site.
Northern Beaches Hospital has caused enough local disruption already ! We should retain recreational facilities for local residents.
Where will be it be relocated? Need an indoor 50m pool on the beaches
It smells like another beacon hill High school debacle Should have shut forest high instead Corruption rules northern beaches
This is stupid, why spend such large amounts of time and effort renovating frenchs forest, such a beautiful place, into the new Chatswood, devoid of trees and environmental friendliness. Surely the state governments money would be better spent in developing coastal cities such as Newcastle and Wollongong and following suit of successful European cities, link them by high speed trains.
Please keep the pool open In a country where drownings continue to happen-why would you want to close the facilities where lessons and swim Fitness happen- this is a community hub
This is such a great facility for the community which my family and I use on a regular basis (2 or 3 times a week). We cannot be left without a pool. It would be such a waste to remove such an important community facility.
Grew up swimming there as a young child, I'm nostalgic thinking about it. Don't demolish it give it life!
I have signed this petition because I issue the pool regularly and don't want to closed. This in the only indoor 50m pool on the Northern beaches and given how long it took for Manly to be redeveloped (including he approval process) I would not propose moving this to another site.
My 3 children are in catchment and will be going to Forest High School but all three also use the Aquatic centre regularly. my eldest son (Harry 10) twice a week for squad. whatever replaces this centre will not be anything like the current centre it won't compare in scale to this one. there's plenty of crown land around the site that the school can be built on please do not bulldoze this fantastic bit of infrastructure. the private developers proposal will be nothing like this and with the population growth on the Northern Beaches we need this indoor 50 meter pool more than ever with its indoor seating capacity for 500 spectators we need this pool as well as a new high school if you are to redevelop the current high school site...
This is a much needed and frequently used facility. It's one of the few accessible local 50m pools