Brixton Recreation Centre saved

Labour has scrapped Lib Dem plans to tear down Brixton Recreation Centre. Lib Dem councillors planned to sell off the land to private developers – and earmarked a site only half the size outside the town centre for a cut-down replacement.

Swimmers are still celebrating last month’s announcement that Labour has ditched Lib Dem plans to sell off Clapham’s leisure centre and swimming pool. The plans threatened to leave local families with nowhere to go for a swim. The Lib Dem proposals for Clapham and Brixton were part of their discredited “Revitalise” scheme, which proposed asset-stripping the borough’s leisure centres to provide money for more luxury office blocks.

Labour councillor Paul McGlone said: “The Lib Dems were daft to ever think local people would put up with their sell-off plans. Now Labour’s launching a new programme called Future Lambeth that will see Clapham Leisure Centre expanded, Brixton Rec refurbished, new facilities for north Lambeth, and a new pool, ice rink and leisure centre in Streatham.”

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