When the Canada Water Leisure Centre opened last year we questioned whether new members were really getting more for less with the revamp.<\/p>\n
The council hiked gym memberships in 2025 after refurbishing several centres, with the cost of a standard membership rising from \u00a331.99 a month to \u00a343.99.<\/p>\n
The price of the lowest-tier membership went up to \u00a336.99, up from \u00a326.99 \u2013 but whereas that previously would have granted access to all five of the council-run centres, including Seven Islands, it now excludes Canada Water.<\/p>\n
But in defence of the new centre, which opened in September after months of delays, the facilities it promised were excellent: a new gym, sports court, dozens of exercise classes, and of course a brand new 25-metre swimming pool with eight lanes, in addition to a separate smaller pool (even though Seven Islands boasted a popular 33-metre pool).<\/p>\n
Barely a month had elapsed, however, until the new pool closed indefinitely because of a fault; four months later, it\u2019s still shut and we still don\u2019t know when it will reopen again.<\/p>\n
The council has done the right thing by suspending memberships; without the pool, members were indeed paying more than they did at Seven Islands for substantially less, although the loss of revenue from membership fares will come at a cost to the council.<\/p>\n
There are other questions which remain unanswered; why has the pool been beset by maintenance issues so early on \u2013 and when will it be open for swimming again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Canada Water Leisure Centre opened last year we questioned whether new members were really getting more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,48,407,84],"class_list":["post-458795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}