Campaigners gather in bid to save Saltdean Lido (From The Argus)
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Campaigners gather in bid to save Saltdean Lido
3:20pm Monday 29th March 2010 in News By Ruth Lumley
CAMPAIGN: Saltdean Lido
Campaigners have vowed to do whatever they can to keep one of the last lidos in Sussex open.
At two public meetings attended by hundreds of people yesterday, a panel consisting of three different community groups asked residents what they wanted to happen to Saltdean Lido and the grade II listed art deco building.
The Save Saltdean Lido Campaign was set up after the building's leaseholder, Dennis Audley, revealed proposals earlier this month to build 102 flats on the site and fill in the pool.
The plans, which are yet to be submitted to Brighton and Hove City Council, caused outrage among Saltdean residents who said the redevelopment would ruin the iconic building.
Yesterday’s meetings were jointly chaired by the Saltdean Residents' Association, Saltdean Community Association and the Save Saltdean Lido Campaign.
Organisers had to turn people away from the first meeting after they reached full capacity and people were told to come back for the second meeting at 3.30pm.
Rebecca Crook, from the Save Saltdean Lido Campaign, said they were looking at several different options to save the lido including applying for Grade II* listed status. The other idea is for the community to try to lease and run the lido.
Comments(11)
anonymous coward
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3:57pm Mon 29 Mar 10
You could try the enthusiastically up-to-date and slightly technically inept www.lidos.org.uk
As to who owns what, can't help you. Sorry. Ask google.
corruptive
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4:13pm Mon 29 Mar 10
ABC1
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4:47pm Mon 29 Mar 10
I'm afraid the Falmer fiasco has left me with absolutely no sympathy for the residents of B&H who object to developments on their doorstep - but who are quite happy for them to takeplace somewhere else.
Gaz the great
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6:55pm Mon 29 Mar 10
Skippah
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7:31pm Mon 29 Mar 10
booplady
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7:44pm Mon 29 Mar 10
Gaz the great wrote:Yes I'm totally agree with Gaz the Great. Thanks for the info!!!!!!
Save the Lido so future generations can see real architecture at work, not the modern faceless buildings being created now. On another subject, the Ovindean school for the hard of hearing is apparantly to close, a real shame for future generations of the hearing impaired children around the Sussex/Kent & Surrey area.
dcsussex
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7:46pm Mon 29 Mar 10
in a few months, i would like to see the owners bank statement, i bet your bottom dollar, there will be a payment to one councellor or two, bet ya!!!!
PeteBrighton
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10:59pm Mon 29 Mar 10
lumen
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7:59am Tue 30 Mar 10
As dcsussex says, there's little hope of getting the council behind any solution that would benefit the community at the expense of reduced profits for the owner.
Even if it isn't literally brown envelopes that motivate our council, it certainly isn't the quality of our environment or of citizens' lives.
RockChick
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9:34am Tue 30 Mar 10
t wouldn’t go amiss either – also maybe some adult swimming only session so we don’t get divebombed. If the Lido had been kept up-to-date, had decent opening hours and been advertised properly, people WOULD use it. What about heated swimming at night for us oldies? Be lovely to swim looking up at the stars. Seems to me that Mr Audley has just bought it, run it down purely so he can say ‘AHA – no-one uses it, therefore I’ll do what I like with it’. Well NO Mr A. You seem to have a fight on your hands. Good times.
corruptive says...
3:27pm Mon 29 Mar 10