Dear Editor,
Cheshire East have dropped plans to build a school on the site of the historic, Art Deco, 1937 Crewe Baths.
#SaveCreweBaths want to re-open Crewe Baths bigger and better and #CreweFirst have been supporting them from the word go.
Cheshire East should now give #SaveCreweBaths that opportunity, to see if they can get the funding to make this remarkable and ambitious project happen.
We can’t allow one of the few remaining pieces of Crewe’s short history to be demolished.
Please email your Councillor(s) and ask them to persuade Cheshire East to allow Crewe Baths to be re-born.
It will only take a few minutes.
Here is the link.
Thanks.
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Yours faithfully,
Cllr. Brian Silvester
Leader, Crewe First
Putting People Before Politics
Needs to be bulldozed to the ground and much needed flats built. The cost to bring that back would be a complete waste and cost a fortune which the council don’t have.
Been left to rot for years and now finally in a state where it’d never be economical to restore.
This is the councils fault. It was set to be a community centre and almost all agreed because the “got a better offer”. Now that has fallen through everyone loses.
In reply to Senoc.
#SaveCreweBaths have detailed plans that are ready to present to the grant givers, like the Lottery Board.
ll they need is the go ahead from Cheshire East.
Its a beautiful example of art deco thst needs to be saved. I remember swimming there when I moved to the area 25 years and I was astounding at the whole building. Yes I know now its shabby, but a lottery grant to save one of the last pieces of art deco design in Crewe would be well spent.
As a local resident who lives opposite the bath I don’t have any emotional attachment to the building.
Frankly the whole site is an eye sore that brings the whole area down and is a meeting place for some of the more feral local teens.
In my opinion the whole place should be leveled and turned into a residents only car park with possibly an extension to the adjacent park included.
The surely would be a much cheaper and faster alternative to letting it rot for another five to ten years. Nobody has the money to do anything else with this building and it’s a lightly in the current climate they have a will have.
It’s a shame to see the baths falling into disrepair.
I remember when at Brierly street boy school Crewe baths was the highlight of the week,
Further more it’s if I’m not mistaken its the size of an olympic size pool.
Good days and memories of Mrs Rogers swimming instructor shouting (stop bombing in the pool 😂).
Point is we need a proper action plan.
Builders and home designers come to mind here with ideas and suggestions and what can be done.
So Councillor Brian Silvester what is your action plan to help save our beloved Crewe Baths.
Yes please bring back the baths it will be grate for all people to get fit and healty i will be one of them useing it .
This building is in a sad state of repair. It was vandalised & various items stolen once it was closed. This includes pool plant machinery vital to re-opening, as well as decorative items.
The main issue with that building is it’s riddled with asbestos as it’s so old, and the steel structure within the concrete is existing and decaying. This is without mentioning the roof, which already closed the building for months in the late 90’s and needed more work.
I worked there for a long time and have as much an emotional connection as others, but I’m afraid that building would be better demolished and the land used in another way.
Bringing the building back into use would cost far more than a new building of similar size/space for the same purpose.
Crewe now has the lifestyle centre for that purpose & although it is very much a flawed and compromised of a build (no car park, waste of space with offices instead of using every inch of space for health & wellbeing) it is still far better than a 90 year old building no longer fit for purpose.