Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Fusion Leisure - so far not so good
As a regular user of both Park Road and Tottenham Green pools, I think that facilities are getting worse under the new contract with Fusion Leisure. I know it's early days but they seem even more inefficient than the previous lot.
Park Road was disgustingly dirty last time I went - both the changing rooms and the water, with which there has long been something of a problem.
Tottenham Green is usually clean enough, but pools have been closed more than once in recent weeks because of boiler problems (which, granted, they probably inherited). When there are emergency closures it's never put on the website, and (as before) it's impossible to contact them by phone. Also the ticket-selling computer system has been changed and now takes even longer per person, so you can waste ages trying to get in.
Fusion has grand plans to rebuild/redesign both the leisure centres in the coming years, but I think they need to prove they can run them properly to begin with.
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by M Fredman on
-
Hi, Park Road Pool is the nearest pool to me so I am (was) a regular swimmer there, even though it is has long been quite horrible in just about every way a swimming pool can be. The pool is dirty; the area assigned to lane swimming normally a sliver of the pool (about 1/6) the rest constantly filled with learning schoolkids or splashing non-swimmers; the changing rooms dirty and, when I was last there, the men's changing room was in disrepair - the showers cordoned off.
Anyway, I went swimming there on April 17th and during the swim began to feel nauseous (against all efforts one always swallows a bit of pool water) then that evening developed a fever which lasted 24 hours.
I can't 100% prove that it was the pool that directly caused my illness, but I am not returning to Park Road if I can help it. I have contacted the council and Fusion Leisure have contacted me, but I have yet to hear anything further to my request that the facilities be looked at, their cleanliness assessed and tested and I be informed of the results. I hold out hope that Fusion can, eventually, improve upon Haringey Council's legacy, but I certainly have not seen that yet.
- ‹ Previous
- 1
- 2
- Next ›
© 2024 Created by Hugh.
Powered by
