More than £500,000 will be spent on replacing a paddling pool on Nottingham's Victoria Embankment after it was initially announced that the facility would not reopen. The pool was first closed in the summer of 2021 due to ongoing issues such as leaks and Nottingham City Council announced in June that it would not be feasible to open the facility again.
The authority said the repairs required at the pool were too costly and complex and a survey was launched on what people wanted to see in its place. But the council has now released its latest plan for the facility and it involves a full new paddling pool at the site, along with a splash pad and a new pumping system.
A total of £543,971.18 has been allocated for the project so far, which comes from a mixture of Government levelling up funding and money from the developers behind three major builds in Nottingham (known as S106 funding). The council has just backed a decision to allocate that money to the Victoria Embankment Pool and says that the demand for the facility has been "exaggerated" by the cost of living crisis.
