Leisure trust opens new changing rooms (From Messenger Newspapers)

There new changing rooms are a great improvement, but there are good and bad points. The family changing cubicles are great - much easier with kids than before. However there are a couple of problems. The first is that parents with young children having lessons used to be able to walk to the poolside gate with them or to collect them. As the only access is via the showers now, this is no longer possible. A consequence of this is parents congregating around the entrance to the showers and as the nearest cubicles are very close, access is completely blocked for everyone else. Secondly, the large array of new lockers consists of a small number of large lockers and many, many very small ones. The small ones are too small for family use and the big ones are all quickly taken - when arriving with my three children, I don't have 4 pound coins on me for four small lockers, I have 1 coin and one large bag to make carrying the clothes from the cubicle to the locker easier. Last Saturday, I was completely unable to find a locker until someone else was leaving; spending at least 5 minutes looking for a locker first.