A LIVERPOOL diving club fears it and other community groups could be forced to close, after a university decided to shut its swimming pool.
Liverpool John Moores University has confirmed “with great regret” that it is to permanently close its pool, based at the IM Marsh campus, in Aigburth, by the end of August.
The university is selling off the whole of its IM Marsh campus, with the university transferring the faculties for education, community and leisure to the city centre within the next few years.
But now the university has pulled the plug on its pool, used by Liverpool diving club and scores of city swimmers, as it “requires a major sustained investment that the university simply cannot afford”.
Chairman of Liverpool diving club, Julie Sharman, stressed closure would spell “the end of access to diving boards by kids and young people across the whole of Merseyside”.
The Liverpool diving club has been based at the pool, due to its ample depth, for decades.
