The Deputy Leader of Carmarthenshire County Council has been pledging that the Council will do all they can to re-open Brynaman Pool next year. Unfortunately, these kind of vague reassurances have no value whatsoever without a detailed survey, a proper budget and an exact timetable for the repair work.
Estimates for repairing the pool are currently varying between £20,000 and £100,000 depending on what newspaper you read! For example in the South Wales Evening Post on August 4th 2010 the Council were claiming the upper figure was needed and also claiming (erroneously) that the film company had offered £20,000.
I have taken the trouble to double check with Chris Hill, the Location Manager for "Hunky Dory", and at no time did the film company offer the Council £20,000; and yet the council made this statement in the South Wales Evening Post last week: "When the (film) producers heard the pool would have cost £100,000 to repair and not the initial £20,000 they had offered, they backed off."
Furthermore the Council remain "at a loss" to explain why they didn't alert the Brynaman Swimming Pool Association sooner about the need for repairs. This phrase occurs in the article written in the South Wales Guardian. I believe I can help them out here: the reason why the Council cannot adequately explain the delay is because they planned it that way! They knew they were not going to open the pool and they also knew they couldn't afford to give BSPA too much notice, because otherwise there would have been time for a concerted protest: therefore presenting the people of Brynaman with a fait accompli was their chosen method of closure.
I doubt if they had prepared themselves for the publicity that has followed this unpleasant piece of council deviousness.
http://www.southwalesguardian.co.uk/news/8311034.Council_boss_offers_Brynaman_pool_campaigners_some_hope/
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