"a unique health offer, with nothing similar in London, the UK or Europe"
"What we're proposing is to convert that into an open outdoor wild swimming provision. It would be cold water swimming,"
"The idea is it would be filtered naturally through reed beds, so nice and bio-diverse. It would be unique, not just in London, but anywhere. There isn't a historic gasholder with a swimming pool in it."
Southwark plans to convert the area around Gasholder No. 13 into a park named after George Livesey, featuring a wild swimming pond alongside a reed-bed filtration pond. The gasholder dates from 1879–1881 and is grade II listed. The council owns most surrounding land while SGN Networks owns the gasholder and may develop 800 homes nearby that could partly fund works. The proposed facility would offer cold-water wild swimming with natural filtration through reed beds to promote biodiversity. The scheme is described as unique and remains at an early scoping stage for business case and costs.
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