Decision details

Following the Best Value Review of Sports and Leisure this report presented options concerning the maintenance of the Splashes pool.

The Cabinet considered this report as an urgent item to enable officers to take this matter forward and a revised set of recommendations were tabled at the meeting.

234/2003 The Cabinet recommended to Council on 11 September:(i) That the total estimated expenditure be authorised to enable the remedial action to be undertaken, with the items referred to as contingency being subject to more detailed investigation and costing;(ii) That the maximum funding requirement as set out in the report be met from the available balance on the Splashes reserve.

To meet health and safety requirements and industry standards of a public leisure facility, and to meet local demand in the Rainham and wider Medway area.