Southern Swimming Pool Board brand sports hub plan 'flawed and inaccurate'

The Southern Swimming Pool Board has branded the government's Strategic Plan for Regional Sports Hubs as 'flawed and inaccurate.'

It says when Tynwald voted last year to produce the plan, it gave hope of a streamlined, coordinated and improved local sports offering.

However, the Board feels the actual report does not deliver this aspiration and DESC’s preferred option makes the situation 'even worse in the south,' and 'misrepresents the financial situation of the Southern Pool.'

The pool's budget is apparently achievable even without the extra energy payment which the regional pools received the last two years. 

It adds that the NSC's £422,000 energy deficit could be covered by local authority contributions if all Eastern ratepayers paid a leisure rate like in the other regions, rather than helped by the closure of the southern pool.

The Board say that despite being the oldest and smallest facility, it's just as efficient.