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This work is offered by a scientist as an hypotheses, much of his work is hypotheses, many councils throughout Great Britain want to close their old Lido type swimming pools, safety figures can be fiddled to achieve this, this is very simple. All that the proprietors of the swimming pool have to do is record as few as possible of considered minor accidents at a new swimming pool, if they also have a new swimming pool under their control, and win numerous safety awards, this looks good, whilst at the older Lido type pool every accident is recorded. If there is a serious accident at the older pool you can then publish the figures, and then claim that the older pools are more dangerous, and that you need to close the older Lido pool.
You may ask, why would the proprietors, mostly local authorities want to do this ? my analyses is that the hierarchal management of the proprietors are aware that there is less interest by their staff in running the older pools professionally, this produces a greater risk of accident and adverse publicity affecting their corporate image. Most people do not like old, most people like new, the corporate staff are no different. Also, the older pools mostly outdoor lido's with high diving boards attract a higher percentage of unruly people, mostly children, these people / children are more difficult to manage. The staff prefer to work at the newer pools, better working conditions, higher assumed status by the staff, and some of the patrons.
Further hypotheses, there are other dirty tricks that can be enabled to close a lido style outdoor pool. Often, there is a high wire security obstacle perimeter fence, If this fence is engineered by management for easy access by the public day or night, there is a two fold bonus if you want the pool closed.
1. Patrons can gain easy free, ( none payment ), access to the pool during business hours, this keeps down the recorded entrants count and cash paid at the gate. The management can claim poor recorded use for the pool.
2. If the weather is hot there is often out of business hours use at the pool, at night, in the dark. This is very dangerous because the users are often drugged or drunk after they leave the pubs or night clubs to use the pool. If one of these people drowns, the management can claim the pool is dangerous, the management would claim, " we cannot police the fence, it is always dangerous, we are always repairing the fence, we must close the pool ".
3. If there is excessive night time use, this noise annoys the local residents, and the local residents become anti local outdoor swimming pool.
4. You allow rubbish that is considerable to build up that the youngsters throw down in to the street outside the pool and along the access highway road, and near the pool entrance. You could easily clear this away, however, this annoys the local residents and makes the exterior of the pool unattractive. You want to annoy the local residents: make them want the pool closed !!!
5. If there are many people in the pool that have not been recorded entrants at the gate during normal business hours, this records a higher percentage of accidents for the recorded pool use. With a higher count of accidents recorded, higher than would have been, if a major accident occurs, the proprietors could claim, " these older pools are more dangerous, close the pool. "
There are many other things that a council can do ( Dirty Tricks ) to close a lido that they do not want.
6. If you can directly fiddle the cash at the gate, this keeps down the recorded entrants. The council can then say not many people are using the pool.
7. Overpay all the contractors that work at the pool by massive amounts to massively increase the running costs of the pool. Nice fiddled backhanders can be earned out of this practise. A cash fiddle at the gate is also a nice little earner.
8. Again, contractors, security company, and security staff, pick the most expensive company. Have security and extra staff at the pool when you really don't need them.
9. Fiddle the public entrance fee pre-paid swipe card users, you don't record these swipe cards for the old pool, if they are recorded at all, you log these to the new pool, ( Nice One, ) you promote this swipe card usage, the recorded patron count at the old pool drops yearly as the promotion advances. ( You're winning )
10. Publish this data for the increased running costs in the local paper and that the recorded entrants are dropping, the local tax payers now do not want to support the pool, ( you're really winning now ).
12. You can easily hole the bottom of the pool to show that the pool is leaking.
13. If the pool is built in to a hill, you can claim the pool has lateral movement, This is a good one, this makes nearby residents concerned, also, lateral movement is a write off for the pool.
14. You can claim that providing necessary access for disabled people is going to be expensive.
15. If you can shut the pool at 3PM before the children come out of school, this keeps down recorded entrant numbers, also, the children soon lose interest and do not come to the pool so often. This further reduces the recorded usage at the pool.
16. You can make sure one of the most used diving boards is closed, out of use in the children's holiday. This disappoints many people coming to the pool.
17. You can claim that necessary renovation work for the pool is going to cost three million pounds. The work would probably cost a few hundred thousand pounds. If the public approve the three million pounds that's jobs and back hander's for the boys.
18. You can have a small fire at the pool and claim this is arson, vandalism.
19. In hot days when the pool is very busy, you have the minimum number of lifeguards, you restrict entrants for safety reasons to only six hundred in the pool. If this is the summer school holidays many children cannot get in to use the pool. A lot of the children lose interest and do not come to the pool again.
20. Alternatively, you can claim there are only six hundred patrons in the pool on hot days, you cream off the many extra patrons cash that you have allowed in.
21. Many years before you close the pool, you stop the artistic diving, this is back front somersault twisting diving, you state that children are copying this diving, it is dangerous. If any of the artistic divers turn up to use the pool when the children are at school, you still do not let them practise their diving. This wipes out a commune that could be a problem to you when you want to close the pool, you do not want this commune photographed at the pool in support of the pool when you want to close it.
This also has an added advantage this reduces patronage count by a couple of thousand entrants, a further recorded reduction in pool usage. Note. The stopping of artistic diving is not mandatory, this is set by the pool operators in their risk assessment.
22. If you have an established artistic diving club at the pool you put obstacles in the way of this club so the proprietors of the club close it, you do not want a diving club published against the pool closure.
23. In the year that you know that you are closing the pool, you tell all the patrons this, they are mostly children, they accept this easily and easily transmit this information reducing public outcry.
24. You close the pool at the end of the summer season a week early this omits a weeks attendance figures that otherwise would be recorded.
25. You take a number of councillors to view the pool for an appraisal. Most of these councillors have never been to the pool, in their unfit state: they holiday abroad, you have your viewing day in the winter. February is a good month for this, the weather is cold, the pool water tanks are dirty, black, there are dead leaves and debris everywhere. One councillor I know that went to the Broom Hill pool in Ipswich for such a winter viewing said " the pool reminded him of a nineteen forties prison camp."
26. You can carefully select the people that are going to sit on the committee that decides the fate of the pool, You do not want anybody on this committee that is for the continuance of the pool.
You make sure that anybody else that is intelligent enough to work out the dirty tricks, and has already been a problem to you is kept out of the pool.
You allow self setting trees to grow close to the buildings, this undermines the structures. In the case of the Broom Hill pool in Ipswich, the front entrance, and the basket room.
You do not do the yearly running repairs to the building, eventually the building is going to be very costly to refurbish. You announce the fantastic repair cost, but the expensive temporary repairs to keep the pool going take place, all the time you are gauging political feedback, is the closure going to effect the councils popularity ?
You announce that the costly repairs are going to be considered in a couple of years, unfortunately the running costs are rising and the recorded patronage is dropping. You announce this could be the last year for the pool, the staff have been told this.
You are afraid the pool closure is going to effect the council's popularity, you decide to hold a referendum, the votes if they are counted: are counted behind closed doors at the councils offices by conspiratorial puppets, " what a fantastic fiddle, " the published result is that there is little support for the pool.
You have your puppet committee meeting, pool closed. Winner !!! You've won, you jet off for a sunny hotel holiday, as always: the underprivileged have been suckered, they now don't get their sunny summer holidays at the pool, street crime rises, children die swimming in un-supervised water, never mind: we don't care.
The pool could have had an internet site with good photographs, and be promoted in swimming pools throughout nearby counties and London. Enjoy a day at this treasure of a lido outdoor swimming pool, in the case of the Broom Hill pool, visit this unusual treasure of a lido outdoor pool, an unusual lido treasure in Ipswich.
If these pools are closed a rise is expected in deaths in rivers, docks, ponds, lakes, the sea, kids stuck in mud banks, as children try to find somewhere to swim in hot weather, in the summer. A rise is also expected in street crime, theft from shops, vandalism, in the summer school holiday as many youngsters will not be contained / occupied. The police will be busy, I would not like to be the police officer that has to pull a drowned child out of the river, and / or, tell a parent their child is dead.
To keep the pool open and maintain it costs nothing, any repair / running costs are recycled in to the local economy, pool closure means staff redundancies as well as increased costs for all the public agencies and the public for the drowning of children in unsupervised water, the increase in street crime including private and commercial theft / burglary. Pool closure does not stop the expenditure, the Broom Hill pool is now a grade two historically listed building that has to be maintained to keep it as such.
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