Whatever happens, you won't be swimming in any sort of pool in two years time.

It's difficult to respond constructively to such a glib comment, but new pool or old pool, I'd rather see the best solution than the quickest. Rather a year longer to create something that looks good, given that people have to live with it for years and years to come.

It's also a good while since it closed. Nothing much has happened in that time. But then it would suit the council to have it that way, seeing as it costs them less. Or perhaps I am too unkind and it is just public sector inertia?