A £1.4 million price tag has been put on refurbishing Castle Douglas swimming pool.
Members of the council’s economy and resources committee will be asked next week to approve spending plans for work on a number of the local authority’s buildings over the next three years.
And one of those includes an overhaul of the Stewartry’s only council-run pool, with the majority of the cash due to be spent in the 2025/26 financial year.
Local councillor John Young said: “It’s excellent news. It is a very well used pool.
“The staff have worked so hard for this upgrade. They can only make themselves a cup of tea by carrying a kettle through to the toilets and back. They have no personal lockers and come to their work in their work clothes. I just hope it goes ahead.”
Mr Young, as well as fellow Castle Douglas and Crocketford councillors Iain Howie and Pauline Drysdale, have been pushing for work to be carried out on the pool for a number of years.
The move comes after a council report in August 2020 revealed the pool – which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year – required a £500,000 upgrade.
The report for Thursday’s economy and resources committee meeting shows the council is planning to go a lot further with the refurbishment.
It’s one of a range of funding allocations totalling more than £12 million over three years councillors will be asked to back.
