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To: Uttlesford District Council and Saffron Walden Town Council
Wallace and Walden need another Swimming Pool
We the undersigned urge both Uttlesford District Council and Saffron Walden Town Council to jointly prioritise the building of at least an eight lane 25m indoor swimming pool in the town to resolve the current deficit in swimming pool availability and to do all it can to save the swimming pool at the Walden School for community use.
Why is this important?
Saffron Walden is already short of swimming pool capacity.
The swimming pool at Walden School is in imminent danger of closing down.
The Lord Butler pool is at capacity and now showing it’s age.
Without another pool a bigger proportion of Saffron Walden’s children may not gain the important life skill of being able to swim. 20% of adults currently can’t swim because of this.
Swimming is the most popular sport in the country and keeping community fit is vital for all age groups to reduce the future burden on the NHS.
The 160 members of WaldenJNR, the largest junior triathlon club in the country, will have nowhere to swim without another pool.
