THE £2m gym revamp plan sounds exciting at first but some of the proposed options do little more than a re-roofing and redecoration of Court Garden Leisure Centre. We are offered three options, possibly four, but with very little detail and no plan it is difficult to see exactly what is proposed.
A café relocation to a car park side extension would appear to separate it from the park side and views to the river. A 90 station health and fitness gym will probably rival Handy Cross in OPTION 2.
This option has improvements to the swimming pool (once discarded as a Millennium project), a sports hall to accommodate (share) with a theatre so no racquets, etc, when plays are performed, two studios and a small museum space.
The latter is for us the principal concern. Does small mean as is, or slightly larger or relatively small compared with other activities but larger, say, twice the size, than at present?
The Marlow Museum has occupied the Peacock Room for eight years and needs to expand. A recent public survey confirmed that although the staff were excellent, the displays first class, the area was constrained and enlargement was clearly the needed.
We would hope that along with other improvements to the Centre, a modest enlargement as we have proposed to the council, could be easily incorporated without loss to any other activity.
Additional funding may well be available.
Mike Hyde, chairman, Marlow Museum
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