Thank you to all those that signed the Save Radcliffe Pool Petition

We have busy been inputting all the email addresses given by the 948 signatures on our petition (about a third of the signatures included this information) and this week sent a thank you email out to all those people. We would like to thank you all, as follows:

Save the Radcliffe Pool Group thank you for signing our petition. We raised over 900 signatures in only a few weeks, demonstrating the support for keeping the existing pool in Radcliffe. This is around 10% of the population of Radcliffe.

The petition was submitted to Rushcliffe Borough Council on 6^th March. They have replied to say they are unable to support our campaign. After speaking to one of Radcliffe on Trent's Borough councillors Eddie Fearon, we understand that part of the reason for this is that the Borough council strategy is to reduce the pools in Rushcliffe Borough to just 2 due to financial constraints. This is apparently in line with government guidelines. Nb. See pg 4 Rushcliffe News Spring 2014, just out.

Also it appears Rushcliffe Borough Council would be concerned about any additional leisure facilities in Radcliffe as it would take money away from other leisure providers in Rushcliffe Borough such as Bingham, Keyworth, Cotgrave or West Bridgford. We do not feel this is fair to Radcliffe residents who will have to travel to nearby pools if the closure goes ahead.

The Radcliffe Community Plan for which you submitted a questionnaire this year has highlighted that the people of Radcliffe wanted more leisure facilities not less.

If saved the Radcliffe pool cannot survive into the future without additional funding as the South Notts Academy are clear they can no longer support the running costs. Therefore we are currently looking elsewhere for financial support. If you have any expertise in the area of fund raising for major projects or would like to get involved please contact us.

The next stage, is for the planning application, to rebuild the South Notts Academy (without the pool) to come up for public consultation-probably in June/July. Please make your views felt at this time as you can make a difference. We will notify you of the date when we have it.

All current information about the pool can be found on https://www.facebook.com/SaveRadcliffeSwimmingPool and  radcliffecommunity.blogspot.co.uk.