Unbelievable!! I am currently living in Parramatta, helping to stop the demolition of Parramatta war memorial pool at the end of March. I grew up in Frenchs Forest and love going to the Warringah pool for school and swimming lessons. Stop destroying community assets! Enough is enough! This state government is appalling!
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Stuart Hale
9 years ago
There's no guarantee that a new pool will actually be built and even if it is what do we do in the interim? The upgraded Manly centre wouldn't be able to handle the influx - it's too busy already!
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Iain Collings
9 years ago
This is an excellent and well patronised facility, that would be an enormous loss to the community if it were to disappear.
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Sarah Rose
9 years ago
This place is the home of making dreams come true. Great community facility. Keep it open!
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Belinda Walker
9 years ago
I hope this is just a rumor!!!
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Graeme D H
9 years ago
If a new high school absolutely has to be built, and I am not convinced it is necessary, the Aquatic Centre should be retained as an integral part of the school, by building the school alongside it, allowing the Aquatic Centre to be dual-purpose...
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Shawn Richardson
9 years ago
We will never get back what we have now, both with the pool and the school.
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Paula Tocquer
9 years ago
The northern beaches already has a shortage of pool facilities. Please keep this pool open! This is just a crazy idea to close this pool.
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Boyd Collits
9 years ago
I am a user of the Warringah Aquatic Centre several times a week and every time I go there I see so many people there. My school has our swimming carnival there as well as many other schools and I hope to keep the Warringah Aquatic Centre open
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Anonymous
9 years ago
The Aquatic Centre is a community asset that provides health improvement to children and people of all ages. The government tries to save money on health care, why demolish a venue that helps people stay healthy. Please keep the Aquatic Centre as it is and find another place to the school.
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Sandra Birdsall
9 years ago
This is what council mergers are all about. To satisfy the greed of developers and the lust for power of the administrators The plan is not about providing affordable housing (as they may say), it is about lining the pockets of these people.
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Ruwan de Mel
9 years ago
This is a fantastic facility with a huge catchment area used extensively by <6 month olds to >90 year olds. Rather than closing the WAC, there must be a better Plan B.
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Jason Collits
9 years ago
Please do not close Warringah Aquatic Centre! The centre is a well used community resource that is vital to cater to learn to swim lessons, squad swimming, public swimming, aqua and gym classes for the elderly and as a safe and fun play venue for children and families.
We have just endured the hottest summer on record in Sydney and thousands of us used the Aquatic Centre as a place to exercise and to entertain our children during this period of extreme heat.
The pool is well used year round, and with the new outdoor play area, has managed to open the appeal of the centre to families even wider.
An extremely large number of schools use the Aquatic Centre for their swimming carnivals each year. With so many schools vying for dates for carnivals, it is not feasible to redirect all of these schools to Manly Swim Centre without a massive imposition of the existing activities there.
The Aquatic Centre is a vital community asset and must be kept open. The Northern Beaches Council must not be allowed to take the 'easy option' here!
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William Hurst
9 years ago
I hope they keep the venue open as it is a great place for family fun and also a place that supports health and fitness
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Kalinda hawson
9 years ago
Ridiculous to close the aquatic centre. It provides a swimming pool mug needed on the northern beaches.
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Roshani Ainkaran
9 years ago
As a Masters swimmer and a former learn to swim teacher, being exposed to both ends of the age spectrum, to close this facility is to put at greater risk the very people whose lives we are trying to make safe and improve the quality of. There's too much at risk by demolishing OUR pool. THINK, RETHINK, RECONSIDER....PLEASE!
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Timothy Day
9 years ago
This is the most rediculous proposal of many put forward by the northern beaches council. Effectively there will be no indoor 50 meter pool on the northern beaches. Where are all the squads, school carnivals etc going to go? Manly is already packed and is outdoor. Homebush? Seen the traffic lately. It is a complete waste of public money.
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Sally Simons
9 years ago
Not from Lakemba! Northern Beaches resident.
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Sally Simons
9 years ago
Please do not demolish Warringah Aquatic Centre to rebuild The Forest High School or for any other purpose. The Aquatic Centre must stay as it is in its current location and in its original design. When it was built in the late 70's it was state of the art, the best pool in NSW, and it remained so until the Sydney Olympic Pool was built for 2000, regularly holding national and state championships and Olympic trials. It is still one of the best pools around, especially for swimming carnivals as well as swim schools and simply for recreation. Having worked at the WAC for 10 years in the 80's and 90's and having swum there for many more years, I know that it is a very well designed building which functions so well for many uses, from competitive racing and training, learn to swim, water polo, diving, synchronised swimming, aquarobics and recreational swimming and play. I don't know of another pool other than SOPAC which can serve all these functions. The newly renovated Boy Charlton Pool at Manly, on the other hand is a complete disaster for holding swimming carnivals, not at all functional, and the new indoor play pool area is a total waste of money. Families on the Northern Beaches go to the beach to play when its hot! We have a rich history on the Northern Beaches of producing swimming and surf lifesaving champions. The WAC played an important role in the lives of many of those champions. It is also located in the most beautiful, natural setting and it is a joy to swim there. So many Northern Beaches children have learnt to swim there, I know this, having spent so many hours of my life at the WAC over 40 years. No pool in a town centre will be able to replace the WAC in all its functions. I have been to several of the new pools in the northern area, including Manly, West Pymble and Macquarie University Aquatic Centres and none of them have the functionality for so many uses as the WAC. I understand that the WAC has never been a money spinner, bu
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Patricia Campbell
9 years ago
Leave the Aquatic center alone and leave High school where it is forget any more development in this area it is at capacity.
Unbelievable!! I am currently living in Parramatta, helping to stop the demolition of Parramatta war memorial pool at the end of March. I grew up in Frenchs Forest and love going to the Warringah pool for school and swimming lessons. Stop destroying community assets! Enough is enough! This state government is appalling!
There's no guarantee that a new pool will actually be built and even if it is what do we do in the interim? The upgraded Manly centre wouldn't be able to handle the influx - it's too busy already!
This is an excellent and well patronised facility, that would be an enormous loss to the community if it were to disappear.
This place is the home of making dreams come true. Great community facility. Keep it open!
I hope this is just a rumor!!!
If a new high school absolutely has to be built, and I am not convinced it is necessary, the Aquatic Centre should be retained as an integral part of the school, by building the school alongside it, allowing the Aquatic Centre to be dual-purpose...
We will never get back what we have now, both with the pool and the school.
The northern beaches already has a shortage of pool facilities. Please keep this pool open! This is just a crazy idea to close this pool.
I am a user of the Warringah Aquatic Centre several times a week and every time I go there I see so many people there. My school has our swimming carnival there as well as many other schools and I hope to keep the Warringah Aquatic Centre open
The Aquatic Centre is a community asset that provides health improvement to children and people of all ages. The government tries to save money on health care, why demolish a venue that helps people stay healthy. Please keep the Aquatic Centre as it is and find another place to the school.
This is what council mergers are all about. To satisfy the greed of developers and the lust for power of the administrators The plan is not about providing affordable housing (as they may say), it is about lining the pockets of these people.
This is a fantastic facility with a huge catchment area used extensively by <6 month olds to >90 year olds. Rather than closing the WAC, there must be a better Plan B.
Please do not close Warringah Aquatic Centre! The centre is a well used community resource that is vital to cater to learn to swim lessons, squad swimming, public swimming, aqua and gym classes for the elderly and as a safe and fun play venue for children and families. We have just endured the hottest summer on record in Sydney and thousands of us used the Aquatic Centre as a place to exercise and to entertain our children during this period of extreme heat. The pool is well used year round, and with the new outdoor play area, has managed to open the appeal of the centre to families even wider. An extremely large number of schools use the Aquatic Centre for their swimming carnivals each year. With so many schools vying for dates for carnivals, it is not feasible to redirect all of these schools to Manly Swim Centre without a massive imposition of the existing activities there. The Aquatic Centre is a vital community asset and must be kept open. The Northern Beaches Council must not be allowed to take the 'easy option' here!
I hope they keep the venue open as it is a great place for family fun and also a place that supports health and fitness
Ridiculous to close the aquatic centre. It provides a swimming pool mug needed on the northern beaches.
As a Masters swimmer and a former learn to swim teacher, being exposed to both ends of the age spectrum, to close this facility is to put at greater risk the very people whose lives we are trying to make safe and improve the quality of. There's too much at risk by demolishing OUR pool. THINK, RETHINK, RECONSIDER....PLEASE!
This is the most rediculous proposal of many put forward by the northern beaches council. Effectively there will be no indoor 50 meter pool on the northern beaches. Where are all the squads, school carnivals etc going to go? Manly is already packed and is outdoor. Homebush? Seen the traffic lately. It is a complete waste of public money.
Not from Lakemba! Northern Beaches resident.
Please do not demolish Warringah Aquatic Centre to rebuild The Forest High School or for any other purpose. The Aquatic Centre must stay as it is in its current location and in its original design. When it was built in the late 70's it was state of the art, the best pool in NSW, and it remained so until the Sydney Olympic Pool was built for 2000, regularly holding national and state championships and Olympic trials. It is still one of the best pools around, especially for swimming carnivals as well as swim schools and simply for recreation. Having worked at the WAC for 10 years in the 80's and 90's and having swum there for many more years, I know that it is a very well designed building which functions so well for many uses, from competitive racing and training, learn to swim, water polo, diving, synchronised swimming, aquarobics and recreational swimming and play. I don't know of another pool other than SOPAC which can serve all these functions. The newly renovated Boy Charlton Pool at Manly, on the other hand is a complete disaster for holding swimming carnivals, not at all functional, and the new indoor play pool area is a total waste of money. Families on the Northern Beaches go to the beach to play when its hot! We have a rich history on the Northern Beaches of producing swimming and surf lifesaving champions. The WAC played an important role in the lives of many of those champions. It is also located in the most beautiful, natural setting and it is a joy to swim there. So many Northern Beaches children have learnt to swim there, I know this, having spent so many hours of my life at the WAC over 40 years. No pool in a town centre will be able to replace the WAC in all its functions. I have been to several of the new pools in the northern area, including Manly, West Pymble and Macquarie University Aquatic Centres and none of them have the functionality for so many uses as the WAC. I understand that the WAC has never been a money spinner, bu
Leave the Aquatic center alone and leave High school where it is forget any more development in this area it is at capacity.