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I find it worrying that the pH problem was considered bad enough for the pool to be closed. Something must either have been wrong with the water going into the pool in the first place, or something was added afterwards which shouldn't have been, or in the wrong quantity? Whatever, surely there should be checks every time a change of any kind is made to the water, and appropriate action taken? Or was this closure a result of such a check? In which case, I wonder what went wrong?

Why is it so quiet?

This is just something that is "being considered"! It could be years before it happens, if it ever does! I'm sure there must be many possible options to replace the services presently provided by Crown offices, including introducing more what are now called "sub" post offices (I think) in existing shops and other places. I'm sure there will be many different interest groups (for want of a better term) trying to make sure that groups of people who are likely to be most affected by the closure of Crown offices will have suitable alternative local provision. Especially given that presumably the existing Crown Offices are based in the areas where there are (or were) the most people to make use of their services, or were at the time they opened.

🤣 Very true! So how did the pH get "imbalanced" ? And how are they going to "rebalance" it? And how often do they test it, and what is the health implication of this "imbalance"?

Easy mistake to make, as they were all originally part of the Post Office.

Royal Mail is now privately owned, and completely separate to Post Office counters. Replying to Spartacus as well, whose post you were replying to!

It's a forum. People have different views.

It must depend what time you go? I've never had to wait long in there, and there was just one crate to put my parcels in.

I think I'm just pedantically quibbling about the use of the term "imbalance", sorry. Maybe all this cleaning stuff they seem to be putting in the pool has affected the pH 🙄

What on earth does that mean? Imbalance between the pH levels of what and what?

I don't understand?

I think the bad language started in the first post, to be fair. Whose language are you referring to? And who specifically do you think has been unkind, and why? A stolen bag of cat litter is quite amusing in my view, so I'm sorry if you think we should all be taking this very seriously and accompanying the OP to the thief's house to beat him up and get the cat litter back 🙄

There was a change in the company running the leisure centre, wasn't there? Who oversees that? The council? The pool manager or the general manager must ultimately be responsible to someone outwith that company?

Someone had a bag of cat litter stolen and now appears to be threatening the person who stole it ("I know where you live, now watch" ) etc. I'm not entirely sure kindness is warranted. We still don't know how the cat litter came to be (apparently) unattended at the bus stop. Nor why the OP hasn't gone to the thief's home to get it back. But are you a cat litter burglar?!

I think there is a separate swimming manager and an overall manager of the whole centre, but I might be wrong. It's a while since I've used the pool.