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BBC News
26-04-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Richmond swimming pools closed after ceiling issues
A leisure centre that has battled with rising costs and problems with upgrade work has temporarily closed its pools at Richmond Swimming Pool have been shut until further notice after issues emerged with the ceiling, but the café and gym at the site remain Yorkshire Council's assistant director for leisure, Jo Ireland, said: "The safety of our customers and staff is paramount so we have closed the pools while we investigate the problem."All users of the pool have been made aware of the closure and we would like to thank them for their patience while we work to resolve this issue." The problems come weeks after the pool transferred from the management of Richmondshire Leisure Trust to North Yorkshire to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, trust bosses previously warned rising costs and a drop in users were threatening the future of the former Richmondshire District Council came under fire in 2022 for giving the trust almost 5% of its income to run the services - and then having to provide an extra £75,000 to cover a 400% increase in energy council also agreed to pay compensation to the trust of up to £85,000 due to lost income from issues with a £1.9m revamp, which included a new heating system and solar panels on the upgrade work took longer than expected which meant the pool had to close for several months in 2023 due to issues with the heating system. Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
17-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Scarborough Athletic 'in limbo' over new pitch delay
A football club which was due to have its pitch replaced before the start of the new season in August has been told it will not now be ready in Athletic's current artificial 3G pitch at the North Yorkshire Council-owned Scarborough Sports Village was supposed to be replaced after the final home game of the season on 21 the club said it had been told by the council that a site survey had revealed "serious structural issues", including problems with the drainage Trevor Bull said the club had been left "in limbo" and it remained unclear where Scarborough's home games would be played next season. "At this moment in time, we don't know what we're going to do at the start of next season because this is new to us. We're not ruling anything out," he told the a statement, the club said it had "informed the National League of this situation and are engaging with them appropriately alongside other key partners". Jo Ireland, North Yorkshire Council's assistant director for culture, leisure and libraries, said: "A site survey has identified serious structural issues including a defective drainage system installed when the facility was first constructed."The works required before the pitch can be resurfaced are therefore considerably more extensive and complex."The opening day of the 2025-26 National League North season has yet to be announced, but the regular season usually begins in the second week of club said that in the meantime it remained unclear when the pitch at Scarborough Sports Village would be ready for Athletic was formed in 2007 and the club spent its first 10 seasons groundsharing with Bridlington Town before moving to its own home in Scarborough manager Jonathan Greening said any suggestion of a potential groundshare would be "the last option". Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
