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Camden New Journal - EXCLUSIVE by SARA NEWMAN
Published: 30 August 2007

Cllr Flick Rea

No unisex please, we’re changing

LEISURE chiefs last night (Wednesday) bowed to public pressure and agreed to look again at plans to create unisex changing rooms at the new look Prince of Wales swimming baths.
Liberal Democrat councillor Flick Rea, who is masterminding the much-anticipated refurbishment of the Victorian baths in Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town, said that she had personally intervened.
Swimmers reacted with horror when they discovered that architects working on the overhaul of the centre would include a so-called “changing village”, insisting that pool users were given more privacy.
Cllr Rea said in a statement emailed to the New Journal: “I have asked for the design of the changing rooms to be reviewed to provide greater privacy for men and women.”
New designs are likely to be available in October.
Cllr Rea added: “Thank you to everyone who has expressed their views and shown so much interest and support for the refurbishment. I hope this reassures them we are listening.”
She said the review will not delay the refurbishment timetable as the changing facilities are not critical to a planning application due to be submitted in the next few weeks.
The Town Hall is spending around £25 million in a bid to keep the baths open – a key election promise.

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