Broomhill Pool, Ipswich
Description: Broomhill Pool
Grade: II
Date Listed: 24 August 2001
English Heritage Building ID: 488059
OS Grid Reference: TM1539045770
OS Grid Coordinates: 615390, 245770
Latitude/Longitude: 52.0684, 1.1412
Location: 71 Broom Hill Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 4HT
Locality: Ipswich
Local Authority: Ipswich
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Postcode: IP1 4HT
We have 2 comments on this building so far. Why don't you give us your comments as well?
Comments
The campaign to save Broomhill Pool will enter its ninth year this autumn (2010). There have been too many twists and turns in this struggle to document in the comments, but a Feasibility Study in 2006 (carried out by the Broomhill Pool Trust), established that this Grade II Listed lido could be restored for under £4 million.
The pool is owned by Ipswich Borough Council and in the autumn of 2009 they advertised formally for Expressions of Interest in the site. It is established that a top class pool operator has submitted a bid, but this operator will almost certainly expect the Council to make some sort of contribution and, in particular, deliver on their original promise to provide one million pounds towards the restoration. Large funding bodies like the Heritage Lottery Fund, for instance, expect to see what is known as "commitment" in a tangible form. (It was this lack of 'commitment' that scuppered the HLF bid made by the Broomhill Pool Trust in 2008.?
At the current moment the Council are in the process of looking at the bids and weighing their options.
Sally Wainman, 20 June 2010
The development agency Choose Suffolk has recently (June 2010) launched a new website called Suffolk Icons.
Broomhill Pool is currently the top Suffolk Icon:
www.suffolkicons.com (Home Page)
Sally Wainman, 14 July 2010