The group hoping to save Deepings Leisure Centre is appealing to the government to re-open the Community Ownership Fund so it can begin repairs before another winter damages the structure further.
The fund has been frozen since the change of government and they're told it's unlikely to re-open before the autumn budget. The group is also meeting Lincolnshire County Council today about the future of the facility. Virginia Moran from Save Deepings Leisure Centre says they need the government to act now.
‘All this said is it probably won't reopen until after the budget, which is October, but got another winter without a roof the state it’s in. As I said elsewhere, there's going to come a point where the ingress of water is going to start affecting the fabric of the building and if it does that we've had it because that's a rebuild job. But we have joined up with several other organisations and there's a letter going to Angela Rayner to basically say we can't wait, not just us, but people all over the country, we cannot wait till the end of October’.
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