New Lido or news management?
It really would be great to have a new lido in the area and I really hope the council are sincere in the announcement that one is being planned.
However, it is difficult to resist the temptation to be cynical that the announcement has come just after the Town Hall debacle possibly in an attempt to distract.
What tends to give credence to this view is that no mention of possible sites has been made. An area near Wormwood Scrubs (outside the borough) was identified several years ago for a community-led lido project but that seems to be making slow progress. This shows that finding a location is just base camp when it comes to getting one of these built so to say that a lido will be built in the 'next few years' seems overly optimistic or downright misleading.
I could be wrong. It could be that the council is well advanced with a scheme but can't tell us for commercial reasons. After all, if they have got funding for the project as they claim, it is very unlikely that this was given without some indication of where it might be spent. However, if there is no further information on this in the next six months, it has to be concluded that this is a case of 'look at this shiny thing and not the horrible mess over there'.
Gordon Southwell ● 240d1 Comments