Footscray Swim Centre
- Facilities at the Footscray Swim Centre include a 25 metre indoor heated pool, a shallow pool with water slide, a wading pool, gym, sauna, spa, aerobics/exercise facilities, occasional child care, kiosk, meeting and change rooms
- There are 450,000 visits to the Swim Centre annually; making it one of the best patronised pools in Victoria
- Attendances at the Swim Centre are rising for Keep Fit and Gym classes, etc. Clients are turned away because classes are full
- Footscray Pool has one of the largest schools Learn to Swim program of any pool in Victoria.
- The Occasional Childcare Centre is the only one in the Footscray Business District. As well as allowing young mothers to attend exercise classes or swim, it allows parents and caregivers to attend appointments (medical, etc) in the Footscray CBD.
- For more than 90% of City of Maribyrnong residents, Footscray Swim Centre is easily accessible by tram, train, bus, bicycle, skateboard, or by pram and foot. It is close to residential areas and is easily accessible for handicapped residents
- The catchment area of the Footscray Swim Centre is Footscray, Seddon, Yarraville, Kingsville and West Footscray. These are the most populous suburbs of the City of Maribyrnong and the greatest contributors to the rates of the city.
- Staff wages and maintenance costs are included in the ,000 “annual loss” figure reported by Council, but any building requires maintenance. Will Council use similar “losses” to justify closing our Libraries or any other Council owned community facility?
- Council employed engineering consultants Beca Simmons advise there are no major problems with Footscray Pool (the pool is not leaking). Cost to upgrade the existing faciility would be .24 million
- SFP’s “Vision” would provide outdoor grassed areas, increased parking, cafe, larger gym, new change rooms, a multi-purpose area, new administration area and much needed maintenance of the pool area all for $7 million.
