Diving platform working group making ‘good progress’
A bid for money to deliver improvement works to the area around the diving platform at La Vallette Bathing Pools could be forthcoming once Environment & Infrastructure has completed its assessment of the extent of works required, the committee’s president, Lindsay de Sausmarez, told deputies yesterday.
Deputy de Sausmarez said E&I welcomed the ‘fantastic community response’ to exploring ways to keep the diving board in place, adding that a specially-constituted working group had made ‘good progress.’
She said that the Health & Safety Executive – which served a prohibition notice on the States in relation to the pool last month – had agreed to her committee’s proposed approach, which meant that should the proposed works achieve the safety standard the committee was aiming for, the diving platform could be reopened.
‘We’d like to thank and commend the detailed contributions and the HSE for their openness to finding a mutually agreeable, pragmatic solution,’ she said.
Deputy Simon Vermuelen said he was aware of contractors who would do the work on a voluntary basis, and questioned a figure of £1m. that had been previously been ‘bandied around’ as a cost estimate for fixing the issues at the pool.
Deputy de Sausmarez said that figure came from the upper end of a cost estimate as part of a potential scenario where bedrock needed to be excavated in order to deepen the pool.
‘We’ve very much hoping, especially with our proposed approach which has now been agreed by the HSE, that will not be necessary,’ she said.
