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How does it affect you?
A plan of the pool redevelopment under way at QEII Park. (click to enlarge) |
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The closure of the existing 50m pool, dive well, learners’ pool, changing facilities and hydroslide will affect a number of programmes and services at QEII over the next six months.
For more information on specific programmes and events please contact 372849.
- Opening hours to the new pool are the same: 6am-9pm Mon-Fri and 7am-6pm Sat, Sun and public holidays.
- There will be temporary access to the new pool and temporary changing rooms, toilets and showers until July.
- Serious and recreational swimmers can continue to lane-swim in 25-metres of the new 50m pool.
- With the closure of the learners’ pool, children’s play space will be limited during this construction stage.
The training and splash pool will be open for recreational swimming Monday to Friday 5.30pm to 7.30pm and weekends and school holidays 11am to 6pm.
- The hydroslide has closed.
- The dive well will be closed until July. During this time there will be no casual springboardiving or dive school programmes.
- Learn-to-swim programmes continue throughout stage 2 of the construction and will be based in the 25m training pool. However, there will be no play space available for children after their lessons.
- Aquacise classes will continue to run, however to cater for all activities at the pool there will be a smaller timetable.
- Aqua jogging, underwater hockey and water polo is being provided for in the new pool.
QEII staff and management would like to thank you for your cooperation and patience during this time and believe the new leisure facility will be worth the wait.
The Council Parks Unit will soon invite comment on the future character of Park Terrace — a significant stretch of the Avon River which provides a dramatic entry to the city’s cultural centre and strong visual links to Hagley Park.
As part of the 1991 Hagley Park Management Plan, the unit is reassessing the existing management policies and plans for the banks of the Avon between the Armagh Street bridge and the Carlton Mill corner, along Park Terrace.
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