My children all learned how to swim there, it would be a travesty for other children not to have this facility!
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Mira
1 year ago
Save it
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Anonymous
6 years ago
Learning to swim saves lives. Please rethink this move
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Chaslyn Bryant
7 years ago
That pool is way more valuable to teaching swimming to children I did my life guard qualification there
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Bridget Dunford
7 years ago
I feel very strongly about the closure of Springfield School swimming pool. I swam here from primary school age, with Solent Road Junior & after school clubs. I swam for Northsea Swim club and would not have been such a good swimmer if it wasn’t for this facility. I fondly remember competing in competitions & galas and did all my mile badges and lifesaving awards here. Please reconsider, it is truly a wonderful asset to the community, Victoria Swimming pool has long gone and where will people learn to swim? It is a life skill that should be taught to every kid in the area and you want to concrete over it to make way for 65 more pupils- please rethink again
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Gary Bartlett
7 years ago
Keep the pool
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Anonymous
7 years ago
This is a bad idea. Swam for County after training here whilst at Springfield. It offers such opportunities.
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Brook White
7 years ago
I tried a few years ago to build a complex four pools for swimming lessons, on the Highgrove Lodge site across the road from Springfield. The council pulled out of the sale of the land, which still sits idle. With local support, Mypool Ltd could re-open discussions to get this plan back on the table . See our planning application for Karen Avenue -Construction of single storey building to form Community Hydrotherapy Centre comprising 4 pools with associated parking accessed from Karen Avenue (re-submission of 13/00837/FUL).
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jane Avis
8 years ago
Whilst I did everything I could to get out of swimming, I can truly see the stupidity of closing and decimating this vital resource. Swimming is a life skill, which sadly lack, but if this pool helps children to gain confidence in the water in a safe environment, I should remain open. OK pools are very expensive to maintain and keep open, and this one is knocking on in years, so could be quite costly, but surely there are ways of making a small income from this for locals to use it and help with the financing? I strongly oppose the closure
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Bridget Dunford
8 years ago
Ex Springfield pupil who swam regularly in this pool from Junior school upwards. Very short sighted of school & Portsmouth City Council as swimming is a life skill that all children should learn and master rudimentary knowledge of swimming. There is a lack of swimming pools in the Portsmouth area so this should be saved.
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Carl Tanner
8 years ago
Why on earth, when the Uk is steadily progressing with medals tallies in sport, shut a facility that would potentially enhance this and is guaranteed to increase the fitness and health of pupils. Ludicrous decision, no common sense whatsoever. I learned to swim in that pool and Victoria bathes (sadly shut also), not some ginormous enormodome pool where 1000 other people are trying to do the same. Maybe an exaggeration but principle is there, this would be taken away a facility that would never be returned and is in my mind short sighted and idiotic.
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Matt Smith
8 years ago
I was a Springfield pupil some 30 years ago. I learned to swim and kayak in that pool. My children now go to the school. They learned to swim as toddlers at an after school club there.
The school already has a large gym and vast playing fields, so it’s not like there isn’t space for an extra 65 kids (2 classes) to do PE without concreting over the pool. Remember: once it’s gone; it’s gone for good. I think it’s a short sighted decision to get rid of the pool; act in haste, repent at leisure.
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Matt Smith
8 years ago
I was a Springfield pupil 30 odd years ago, I learned to swim and kayak in the pool. My children now go to the school; they learnt to swim in an after school club there too.
The school already has an indoor gym and vast areas of playing field, so it’s not like there’s no room for an extra 65 kids (2 classes) to do PE without having to close and concrete over the pool.
Remember, once it’s gone: it’s gone. Don’t act in haste and regret at leisure.
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Julie Williams
8 years ago
A pool provides vital balance in a child's school life. I learned to swim here, in 1979 - it needs to stay!!
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Kimberley Proudlock
8 years ago
I learnt to swim at this pool - agree it should be kept - will benefit far more than an additional 65 pupil intake will.
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Lee Brace
8 years ago
I went to Springfield School and was lucky to learn to swim in the pool please keep so others can learn and benefit from it....
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Louise Wells
8 years ago
I learnt to sort of swim in this pool back in the 80's and I was hoping my daughter would learn too in the same pool. We need this pool to stay. It's the only one in this area that is convenient to the local schools. They don't need another Gym. If they do just build one near the fields, there's plenty of land.!!!!
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emma gall
8 years ago
Please keep the pool at Springfield
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Christopher Stone
9 years ago
Shameful and shortsighted decision by PCC and the school governors. Was this to make the new academy more profitable at the expense of a community amenity? Was there any public consultation, whether or not 'legally required'?
I learnt to swim here 30 years ago
My children all learned how to swim there, it would be a travesty for other children not to have this facility!
Save it
Learning to swim saves lives. Please rethink this move
That pool is way more valuable to teaching swimming to children I did my life guard qualification there
I feel very strongly about the closure of Springfield School swimming pool. I swam here from primary school age, with Solent Road Junior & after school clubs. I swam for Northsea Swim club and would not have been such a good swimmer if it wasn’t for this facility. I fondly remember competing in competitions & galas and did all my mile badges and lifesaving awards here. Please reconsider, it is truly a wonderful asset to the community, Victoria Swimming pool has long gone and where will people learn to swim? It is a life skill that should be taught to every kid in the area and you want to concrete over it to make way for 65 more pupils- please rethink again
Keep the pool
This is a bad idea. Swam for County after training here whilst at Springfield. It offers such opportunities.
I tried a few years ago to build a complex four pools for swimming lessons, on the Highgrove Lodge site across the road from Springfield. The council pulled out of the sale of the land, which still sits idle. With local support, Mypool Ltd could re-open discussions to get this plan back on the table . See our planning application for Karen Avenue -Construction of single storey building to form Community Hydrotherapy Centre comprising 4 pools with associated parking accessed from Karen Avenue (re-submission of 13/00837/FUL).
Whilst I did everything I could to get out of swimming, I can truly see the stupidity of closing and decimating this vital resource. Swimming is a life skill, which sadly lack, but if this pool helps children to gain confidence in the water in a safe environment, I should remain open. OK pools are very expensive to maintain and keep open, and this one is knocking on in years, so could be quite costly, but surely there are ways of making a small income from this for locals to use it and help with the financing? I strongly oppose the closure
Ex Springfield pupil who swam regularly in this pool from Junior school upwards. Very short sighted of school & Portsmouth City Council as swimming is a life skill that all children should learn and master rudimentary knowledge of swimming. There is a lack of swimming pools in the Portsmouth area so this should be saved.
Why on earth, when the Uk is steadily progressing with medals tallies in sport, shut a facility that would potentially enhance this and is guaranteed to increase the fitness and health of pupils. Ludicrous decision, no common sense whatsoever. I learned to swim in that pool and Victoria bathes (sadly shut also), not some ginormous enormodome pool where 1000 other people are trying to do the same. Maybe an exaggeration but principle is there, this would be taken away a facility that would never be returned and is in my mind short sighted and idiotic.
I was a Springfield pupil some 30 years ago. I learned to swim and kayak in that pool. My children now go to the school. They learned to swim as toddlers at an after school club there. The school already has a large gym and vast playing fields, so it’s not like there isn’t space for an extra 65 kids (2 classes) to do PE without concreting over the pool. Remember: once it’s gone; it’s gone for good. I think it’s a short sighted decision to get rid of the pool; act in haste, repent at leisure.
I was a Springfield pupil 30 odd years ago, I learned to swim and kayak in the pool. My children now go to the school; they learnt to swim in an after school club there too. The school already has an indoor gym and vast areas of playing field, so it’s not like there’s no room for an extra 65 kids (2 classes) to do PE without having to close and concrete over the pool. Remember, once it’s gone: it’s gone. Don’t act in haste and regret at leisure.
A pool provides vital balance in a child's school life. I learned to swim here, in 1979 - it needs to stay!!
I learnt to swim at this pool - agree it should be kept - will benefit far more than an additional 65 pupil intake will.
I went to Springfield School and was lucky to learn to swim in the pool please keep so others can learn and benefit from it....
I learnt to sort of swim in this pool back in the 80's and I was hoping my daughter would learn too in the same pool. We need this pool to stay. It's the only one in this area that is convenient to the local schools. They don't need another Gym. If they do just build one near the fields, there's plenty of land.!!!!
Please keep the pool at Springfield
Shameful and shortsighted decision by PCC and the school governors. Was this to make the new academy more profitable at the expense of a community amenity? Was there any public consultation, whether or not 'legally required'?