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Not looking good for Tunstall Swimming Baths (reading between the lines)
Today Stoke-on-Trent City council have started a new consultation process, which will ask us what services we could live with and what we could live without, saving 14% from it's £209 million budget - thats £30 million next year.
These cuts are already on top of big slashes made by the council over the past two years.
The list it's self asks you to prioritise from the following services:
- Encouraging more jobs and businesses
- Reducing anti-social behaviour and fear of crime
- Looking after the environment and tackling climate change
- Improving health and well-being
- Repairing and maintaining roads and pavements
- Keeping streets clean
- Improving educational achievement
- Supporting and protecting vulnerable adults and children
- Increasing recycling
- Providing sport and leisure facilities
- Providing decent and affordable housing
Be aware that Improving health and well-being and providing sport and leisure facilities have been separated. Probably so schemes like Closer to home walks (cheaper to run) can be grouped separately.
Remember this is a consultation, our views don't have to be acted on, but just made to look like they are listening to their "customers".
With past planned cuts putting Tunstall Pool firmly in the firing line, and was only given a temporary reprieve it could well be facing the chop again.
One of the recommendations from the last planned closure was the need to promote these services. I personally have done what I can with this website, and have made sure when someone types Tunstall Pool into google that they get a full list of what's going on when, which sadly you don't get from the councils piss poor offering of a website.
Obliviously this is all speculation on my behalf, but supporters and users of Tunstall Baths might need to take this as an early sign, and start putting our heads together.
A number of cuts I'd like to see adding to the list are the council magazine, and media budget, expensive HR payouts: but they seem to be missing.
Read more about the consultation online:
Stoke-on-Trent City Council asks the public how should we save £30 Million
Councillor Peter Kent Baguley - speaks out against the consultation
Councillor Mike Barnes - Criticism of the Save £30 Million consultation
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Tunstall Pool As a weekly
Tunstall Pool
As a weekly spectator to the kids swimming lessons on a Saturday which the classes are always full for, and the fact that the we know of one local primary school that use this pool weekly it would be a shame to loose it.
After the fighting to keep it going earlier this year and all the hard work that was carried out from here, if it comes to petition time again, I think including the local schools that may use it could also be targetted for additional petitions. I am sure Goldenhill Primary would be up for saving it.
Nothings definate but with
Nothings definate but with the matter never being resolved, we need to start preparing to fight for a well used facility.
Goldenhill primary school were fine with the petition last time, it was just a case of when it was time to drop it off news had come through of the reprive.
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