Essential maintenance work to take place at Salt Ayre Sports Centre
LANCASTER City Council is taking advantage of the Easter bank holiday weekend to programme elements of its annual maintenance schedule at Salt Ayre Sports Centre.
Salt Ayre is a facility that operates the best part of 50+ weeks per year, and as such it is always a challenge to find the best time to schedule planned maintenance works.
Rather than programme a week or fortnight closure for maintenance and repairs, the council's planned maintenance aims to minimise disruption to its customers by linking maintenance work to closures around public holidays, which traditionally represent quiet periods.
As a result the opportunity has been taken to schedule this work for April 3 and 4, the weekend between the two Easter bank holidays. The centre will therefore be closed from April 2 to April 5 inclusive.
The closure will allow for the overhaul the centre's emergency lighting system, which must be done with the centre vacated.
Separately, "specialist diving" contractors will carry out a full inspection of and carry out adjustments to the swimming pool's movable floor.
In carrying out these type of works over such periods, the council aims to ensure that standards and quality are maintained at Salt Ayre Sports Centre, but at minimum disruption to the centre's half a million plus, annual visitors.
Date Published: 16/03/10