We've submitted exciting new plans for a leisure centre, new secondary school and
hundreds of new homes near Shoreditch Park
The new buildings will be placed on the site
of the Britannia leisure centre which won't close until the new one is open
As you can see we are in Britannia leisure centre, it's a much loved facility
but it's quite dated at the moment
Due to the age of the building it doen't comply with Sports England standards
For example in the pool area there is no lane swimming
Hackney needs improved leisure provision, hundreds more school places and thousands of new homes
our proposals help deliver on all of these, it's taken us years of planning
consultations, public meetings and engagement to get to this stage and
every step of the way we've listened to residents and campaigners taking on
board their feedback throughout
Despite investment in the center there are a number of issues with this aging building, especially in the plant room
we have a multiple plant floors of plant room, here we have three floors
In a modern facility, there would only be one, and be a lot more efficient and energy saving
We all know there are lots of elements of the existing Britannia that people love
and as you can see from the que behind me it's really popular
what people have been saying these that they really like that family sense around the swimming pool
having a beach area, having the flume, having an area to splash about
we listened to all those concerns and made sure that the new Britannia leisure centre
has all of those facilities as well as lane swimming and an
introduction to swimming area
what we can't afford to do is pay for everything ourselves
so what we're doing is generating income to pay for it
building and selling homes to help fund the rest and the council by acting as developer
means all of that resource and money goes towards benefiting the community
and not shareholders profit
building new infrastructure on this scale isn't easy
and it always comes with huge challenges it's a balancing act and you can't please
everyone and i'm afraid sometimes compromises have to be made but what
we're doing here is really a new way of doing things we're acting because our
government grant has been cut by about 45 percent since 2010 that's
140 million pounds that we can no longer spend on the people of Hackney and the
things they want to see we also don't get any money from government for new
leisure centers or for social housing but we haven't accepted that so we've developed a plan
that allows us to build those new facilities and also fund a school of the
quality that Hackney's children really deserve
a common question is why isn't
there 50 percent affordable housing and that is because we're building all of
that other social infrastructure but we're making sure that on site there are
eighty-one homes for social rent and shared ownership for local people the
fact is we need an new Britannia leisure centre and we need new school places we
can't wait for that perfect site that will please everyone if we did nothing
would ever get built these are the challenges I understand they're
difficult but what we're proposing is necessary especially if you believe
Hackney's current and future generations deserve access to the very best schools
and leisure provision I'd urge everyone to look at what we
are proposing, the journey we've been on to listen to people's concerns make sure
they give their views as part of the planning application
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