Their presentation will also include estimates for how much the project would cost. If approved, the group will then bid for funding in the next Medium Term Financial Plan, which sets States spending for 2016, 2017 and 2018 and will be agreed next year.
The proposals, which follow two years’ of work and a public consultation called Rediscovering Fort Regent, include a new ‘exciting’ way to access the site from town and plans for the taxpayer to meet infrastructure costs while private companies will take over the running of activities.
And, 11 years after the previous swimming pool closed, the politician leading the group, Deputy Eddie Noel, has hinted that a pool could make a return to the site.
Campaigners have previously called for a 50-metre Olympic pool to be part of the plans and more than 3,000 people joined a Facebook Group to back the call.
Asked if an Olympic-sized pool was part of the plans due to be unveiled to ministers, Deputy Noel said: ‘You will have to wait and see.’
Over the years various plans have been put forward for the site but none have been progressed.
This time, however, Deputy Noel said the proposals – which he called ‘exciting’ – were backed up by detailed costings and a plan to bid for funding from the States. There has also been a suggestion to bring back the cable cars that linked Fort Regent with Snow Hill.
If given the go-ahead by ministers the proposals are due to be unveiled to the public next week. And, an open day at Fort Regent is scheduled for October to help explain the plans to Islanders.
PICTURES: In 2009, the JEP was allowed access to Fort Regent to see the state of the formerly popular swimming pool:
