Following a major refurbishment of the pool’s facilities, Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, joined staff of the Brighton Swimming Centre yesterday (January 4) to celebrate the Centre’s fifth birthday.
Over the last five years the former school swimming pool has been totally transformed with new changing rooms/shower areas and the creation of new training and meeting room suites.
Over 3000 children and adults a week now visit the centre and it has become the busiest swimming pool in the UK for the training of swimming teachers. It is also a major centre for the development of open water swimming.
Simon said: “I was delighted to visit Brighton Swimming Centre again yesterday and see how the Centre has developed over the last five years. It is a great facility that is nationally recognised for its role in finding employment opportunities for people who train at the Centre. I would like to congratulate the staff on the fantastic work they do.”
The Centre plans next to modernise its plant room, providing it with one of the greenest and most efficient pool plant systems in the city and to install a new lighting system for the pool including the restoration of its underwater lights.
Paul Smith, Managing Director of Brighton Swimming Centre, said: “It’s been a big learning curve since we took over five years ago – however it’s turned into a real success story! So many swimming pools have been lost to the city – I am proud to have been able to save one.”
“I would particularly like to thank our local MP Simon Kirby whose steadfast support has been invaluable.”
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