‘Significant funding challenge’ facing Cleveland Pools.

Richard Wyatt

[As things were, before those disastrous January floods]

Got to thank my friend Bill for bringing the following statement to my attention.

I seem to have slipped off the list for updates, and this Progress Report from the Cleveland Pools Trust is dated February 19th!

Basically, it would seem they have completed the assessment of the damage caused by the floods of January 2024 and, though “determined to see swimmers return to the Pools once again” realise that reopening them “will involve a significant funding challenge.”

Here’s the statement in full:

Note to self. There appears to be a new Chair of the Trust. Paul Simons apparently resigned on February 16th this year.

There is no mention of where the money is going to come from, and no mention of insurance or whether litigation will be forthcoming.

Published by Richard Wyatt

Freelance Journalist, broadcaster, columnist and local historian. Director of Bath Newseum. Married and lives in Bath. Interested in local history, architecture and visual display in museums and urban spaces.

6 Comments

  1. No mention of any efforts to recover costs from the designers and/or contractors of the refurbishment works. And was there any building insurance in place – although perhaps too close to the Avon for flood damage cover to be in place?

  2. I think one point of contention was that the ‘flood-proof’ machine room had flooded because a door was left open?

    1. The first sentence of the fifth paragraph appears to have omitted the ‘no’ between ‘took’ and ‘account’. If the pool was let to Fusion Lifestyle on a long term, full repairing and insuring sub lease what went wrong there?

  3. Residents who are real Bathonians have always known that the Lido was affected by high river levels. Apparently the Contractors were not aware of this from the Campaign Group. I guess Lottery funding will not be available second time round.

  4. The naivety about flooding is rather concerning, I wonder how much was paid for a flood consultation. If they had only asked local residents that would have confirmed that nearly every year the area floods. And not to mention the tour boat that runs during the summer thats eroding the river bank at an alarming rate.

  5. The press statement completely misses the main point which is somebody made a massive mistake, either in design or implementation. As a result there was a catastrophic flood. Whoever was at fault needs to be paying for the repairs and/or facing legal action and bankruptcy if they or their insurance company are unable to cover the repair costs.

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