The report will advise the Board on the outcome of the debate on this petition at Council in April.

The Head of Leisure and Parks submitted a report (previously circulated, now appended) providing information on the Council’s response to two petitions received concerning publicly funded leisure facilities in Oxford.

Resolved to note the contents of the report, the views expressed by the campaign group in the petition, the public consultation and engagement exercises carried out by the Council and the substantial body of evidence established and, in the light of this, to confirm the previous policy to build a new high quality swimming pool facility adjacent to Blackbird Leys Leisure Centre and, once completed, to close both Temple Cowley Pools and Blackbird Leys Pool.