Tag Archives: Sparkhill Pool

“We Want To Swim” Demo

By FoMRB | July 26, 2011

As the six-week school summer holidays got underway a group of frustrated parents and children descended on Moseley Road Baths in Balsall Heath to complain about the ongoing closure of their favourite pool. The Baths shut for essential repairs at Christmas for what Birmingham City Council initially claimed would be just six weeks, but more [...]

Posted in Birmingham, Building, Campaign, Events, Politics, Repairs, Swimming Groups | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Public Meeting on Sparkhill Baths redevelopment

By FoMRB | July 22, 2011

A public meeting to detail progress and gauge opinion on the redevelopment of Sparkhill Baths takes place next Tuesday, July 26th (7pm) at Sparkhill Cultural Centre, Stratford Road (next door to the existing baths building). The meeting is organised by the Save Our Swimming campaign group and the panel will include Councillor Martin Mullaney, Birmingham [...]

Posted in Birmingham, Community Pools, Meetings, Sparkhill Baths, Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , | Comments closed

Decisions on Sparkhill Baths Rebuilding

By FoMRB | June 28, 2011

Tonight a discussion on the rebuilding of Sparkhill Pool and Fitness Centre will take place at the Hall Green Constituency Committee. We would encourage all regular swimmers and gym users to attend to ensure that their views are taken into account at what could be a very important meeting in deciding who rebuilds, finances and manages the new facility.

Posted in Birmingham, Community Pools, Meetings, Sparkhill Baths | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Sparkhill Baths to be rebuilt

By FoMRB | May 18, 2011

News has just been released that the bulldozers will soon be going into Sparkhill Pool and Leisure Centre.  The pool will be rebuilt, and the building and running of the new building will be put out to tender to private companies – something that the group formed to save the building expressed concern about over [...]

Posted in Birmingham, Community Pools, Leisure Trusts, Sparkhill Baths | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments closed

Work commences at Baths

By FoMRB | March 8, 2011

Re-opening of Moseley Road Baths planned for late May Following an extended period of closure caused by structural problems with a wall in Pool 2, repair work was due to commence at Moseley Road Baths on March 21st, with a hoped for re-opening date of no later than May 23rd. The Baths failed to re-open [...]

Posted in Birmingham, Building, Campaign, Repairs | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Online Sparkhill Consultation

By Rachel | May 17, 2010

Further to last week’s consultation events, there is now an online survey on facilities at Sparkhill Pool and Fitness Centre. You can take the online survey here.

It’s very disappointing that the public seem to have no say in who should manage the facility, especially as this will have an impact on one of the most important assets that local leisure services have: the staff. I spoke with a local council leisure employee only yesterday who doesn’t know whether or not they’ll be in a job in two months time. If the Council are serious about providing high quality health and fitness facilities they need to put such concerns at the heart of the plans. This narrow-minded approach certainly doesn’t bode well for developing other leisure sites around the city…

Posted in Community Pools, Sparkhill Baths, Swimming Groups | Also tagged | Comments closed

Abandoned

By Rachel | May 17, 2010

The Guardian put out a request for readers’ photos on the theme ‘derelict’ last week. The result was a collection of some of the most heartbreaking pictures of buildings which are a shadow of their former glory.

Amongst the pictures was a photo from Emma Jones of the Gala Pool at Moseley Road Baths which you can view on the Guardian’s site. I’m not sure how I feel about it: the pool is absolutely gorgeous, even in its present state, and I think that the more publicity the building has the better, but it’s absolutely shameful that such a building remains in the ownership of Birmingham City Council in such a state. I feel embarrassed that my local pool should so frequently be on ‘most endangered’ and ‘most neglected’ lists, but it seems that our local politicians share no such concern.

Posted in Birmingham, Building, Thoughts | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Sparkhill Consultation

By Rachel | May 10, 2010

As part of the Council’s ongoing plans for replacing Sparkhill Pool and Fitness Centre they have called a series of consultations for this week.  So far it appears that consultations have not had any mention of how the building should be financed and managed, something which campaigners over in Sparkhill believe is absolutely fundamental to [...]

Posted in Community Pools, Sparkhill Baths | Also tagged , , , , | Comments closed

Sparkhill Residents Reject PFI Swimming Pool Proposals

By FoMRB | February 4, 2010

A public meeting of Sparkhill residents last night unanimously rejected proposals for a PFI-funded swimming pool on the Moseley School site in Springfield Road to replace the former pool on Stratford Road, which closed in July 2008 after 77 years of service owing to major structural defects.

Posted in Birmingham, Campaign, Community Pools, Meetings, Politics, Sparkhill Baths | Also tagged , , , , | Comments closed

United against PFI scheme

By Rachel | February 1, 2010

At the Friends of Moseley Road Baths meeting with Cllr Mullaney on 21st January we discussed options for funding swimming provision in Hall Green Constituency. Three options have been put on the table for the urgent work required to ensure that Sparkhill has swimming facilities. Two of these involve building new swimming facilities on the current site, with costs estimated at £10m and £13m respectively. A third involves a PFI pool at Moseley School as part of their new sports and leisure facilities which has been costed at £3m.

Posted in Birmingham, Building, Community Pools, Meetings, Politics, Sparkhill Baths | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed
Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes