Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Fusion Lifestyle Ltd take over Haringey pools
Haringey Leisure Centres will see around £15m of investment when Fusion Lifestyle Ltd takes over management of the service from 1st December.
Improvement works including new studios, a complete overhaul of changing areas, gym expansion and the upgrade of Park Road Lido are likely to begin next year after the council agreed to outsource the service to Fusion Lifestyle for 20 years, saving £500,000 a year.
The 20 year contract relates to the council's three main leisure facilities: Park Road, Tottenham Green and Broadwater Farm - and there will be a three year arrangement for White Hart Lane Community Sports Centre.
Both centres will benefit from renewable energy provision through use of combined heat and power.
More detail on improvements for each centre here.
Fusion's website says;
Fusion Lifestyle
4 Bickels Yard 151-153 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3HA
Tel: 020 7740 7500
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Permalink Reply by Maddy on
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How about: keeping the water clean, keeping the changing rooms clean, answering the phone - none of which seem to be standard at the moment?
Also, I'd like to know what will happen to concessionary swims under the new regime?
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Permalink Reply by David Deane on
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What exactly are concessionary swims at the moment? It seems to be that anybody on any kind of benefit at all at the moment gets free swimming. it's impossible to buy a ticket to swim at Tottenham green without being asked if you're on benefits, as though it's beneath those of us who aren't to even swim there.
(rant over)
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Not free, but reduced. If you are entitled to free prescriptions from tax credits, it costs £1.50 for a swim at the moment, and £2.30 for a sauna/steam. You need to buy a card that costs an initial £6, plus £1 to renew every six months with the necessary proof.
I also hope Fusion Leisure (sorry but I hate the name) will honour the provision of women-only and men-only swims at Tottenham Green which are extremely popular among certain ethnic groups in the area.
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Permalink Reply by Sarah_24 on
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I gave up going to Tottenham Green centre because you had to queue for a half hour just to pay every time I went. If they could sort that out it would be fantastic.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Gave up on both for different reasons; TG for awful changing rooms & Park Rd for badly designed pools. Hopefully after investment things will improve but two pools in the borough for 225,000 people is not enough! But that's a bigger issue.
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Permalink Reply by Neville Collins on
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@matt, Haringey did have a good number of pools. More notably Durnsford Road and Western Road in Wood Green, and Lordship Lane Lido in Tottenham....all of them have since closed. You're right, for a borough of our size, when compared to others, we are heavily underserved.
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Permalink Reply by Asher Jacobsberg on
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That's not my experience. Members should just be able to swipe their cards and go through. You can't force them, but more often than not the swiping doesn't work. We wave ours at the staff and they let us through (for my daughter's swimming lessons).
There are loads of problems at Tottenham Green, but I'm not sure why you'd assume people walking in at Park Road are paid up members but those walking in at Tottenham Green don't pay. The size of the queues at Tottenham Green suggest that most people can't/don't just walk in, they just get served very slowly.
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What really worries me about this is the line on the letter from Haringey, "around £15m in the next few years". Not exactly specific is it? Doesn't instil confidence that there is a strong contract backing this up with penalties if this investment is not forthcoming.
I wonder how much of this investment will go on new signage, letterheads and other rebranding?
I hope my cynicism is unfounded.
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Fair questions Asher. There is a council report that looked at the options leading up to their decision to hand over to an outside provider. The page below sets out some of their thoughts;
You could email John Morris who is named in the above report re the £15m spend; john.morris@haringey.gov.uk
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