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Jun 2023
Last Updated: 26/06/2023
Starbeck Baths to close at Christmas for £29,000 heating repair work
Starbeck Baths looks set to be closed over Christmas for heating repair work costing £29,000.
North Yorkshire Council has commissioned a contractor to upgrade the controls for heating both the pool and the building.
Leeds-based Westminster Controls Limited is set to carry out the work during a “planned shutdown” of the facility over Christmas this year.
Nic Harne, the council’s corporate director of community development, said:
“The contract is to upgrade the controls responsible for heating both the pool and the building.
“The replacement controls will provide significantly better automation and efficient control of the heating and ventilation systems.
“The work is due to be carried out during the planned shutdown of the pool over Christmas.”
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The Stray Ferret has asked the council for the specific dates when the pool is planned to be closed but has not yet had a response.
It is due to be the second time this year the baths will shut for maintenance work.
The facility was closed for a month in April due to an “unforeseen mechanical failure”, which coincided with the Easter school holidays.
Brimhams Active, which was set up by Harrogate Borough Council but is now run by North Yorkshire Council, manages leisure facilities in the Harrogate district.
At the time, it said an an air leak in the pool plant equipment caused poor water clarity led to the closure.
The pool reopened on May 11.
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