Swimmers could be kept warm by cremated bodies

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Swimmers could be kept warm by cremated bodies

Heat generated by cremating bodies is set to warm up swimmers using the Aldershot Lido in Hampshire.


8:55AM BST 04 May 2011




Rushmoor Borough Council is trying to make the lido viable and more attractive to paying visitors as it tries to deal with a £2.4m cut in its government grant.


The leisure and youth panel has been told that heat from the crematoriumâ s furnaces could be piped through to warm the lido and the indoor Aldershot Swimming Pools Complex to save money.


The crematorium and pools complex are both in Guildford Road, near Aldershot Park.


Coun Eric Neal said "I'd like to think in the strange times, we consider every option. We should be prepared to try any option to keep it open."


David Quirk, the councils director of environment and community, said the lidos popularity was seasonal and it was largely unused for eight months of the year.

Closing the lido is understood to have been one of the options presented to councillors to save money.

But opposition from councillors led them to decide against it and focus on looking at a new way of running it to keep it open.

Now the council is to organise a cross-party group to look into the options for "the way forward".
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I guess I was thinking that the same "energy" for the pool could also used for a hot dog stand, or chestnuts during the holidays.
 
And we sing

Cheesssttnuts rooooasting,....on an open ...
 
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Nothing like the smell of roasting dead bodies to get you in the mood for some swimming!
 
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