Evening Press Reader's Letter
The pool-side chatter is that the Yearsley Pool is reasonably safe from closure. It is felt the council wouldn't dare!
Incredible as it may seem, it is the Barbican pool which is in danger and its closure is regarded as a foregone conclusion. Incredible because it is, of all the standard pools, the most modern, the most used, the most central with the widest range of facilities.
The fact that it needs so much money spent on it is largely due to year-on-year neglect of maintenance. The Barbican's big drawback is its situation as a prime site for sale. One can understand the temptation it offers to a cash-strapped council.
Can we examine more positively than has been shown to date every avenue for maintaining this pool including an approach to the Minister for Sport for guidance? This pool was built to great acclaim with ratepayers' money and no-one expected it to be bulldozed within 25 years. We must keep our Barbican Pool.
A J Knights,
Kirkcroft,
York.
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