{"id":360548,"date":"2026-01-09T08:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360548\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:21:08","slug":"saunas-and-winter-swim-plans-for-hampstead-heath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360548\/","title":{"rendered":"Saunas and winter swim plans for Hampstead Heath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the Ladies&#8217; and Men&#8217;s ponds are open all year round, the Mixed Pond is only available for use by the public from April to October. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones said that during the winter &#8220;only members of the Hampstead Heath Winter Swimming Club can use the pond, by long-standing arrangement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The review will look at bringing the pond into line with Parliament Hill Lido, Kenwood Ladies&#8217; Pond and Highgate Men&#8217;s Pond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A draft five-year business plan, which has been drawn up by the corporation, has proposed several changes to the swimming spots, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These also include fitting temperature sensors that can be viewed online, and the installation of water aeration systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plan is due to go before the Hampstead Heath Consultative Committee next week for discussion with approval expected at a separate committee meeting in early February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Ladies&#8217; and Men&#8217;s ponds are open all year round, the Mixed Pond is only available for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-360548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}