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| 7TH - 13TH SEPTEMBER 2018 | UTILITY WEEK
High viz
Scott Whitby Studio has won planning
and listed building consent for
a project to breathe new life into
Britain's biggest seawater lido, the
art deco Jubilee Pool in Penzance,
Cornwall.
Opened in 1935 when the town was
one of the country's premier holiday
resorts, its fortunes waned as it took a
battering from storms and the lido was
ultimately threatened with closure. It
is now owned by a community benefit
society, which asked Scott Whitby
Studio to prepare proposals for
safeguarding the future of the pool by
providing year-round facilities.
Working with Arup, the practice
proposed using geothermal energy to
turn it into the UK's only geothermally
heated seawater pool. This is expected
Dive in, the
water's lovely!
Operations & Assets
Photo:
Alamy
