Geocons controversial plan for a twenty-five-meter pool in Wodens new apartment complex receives approval, marking a significant step forward for the project. The development, featuring nearly seven hundred units, will replace the existing outdoor fifty-meter pool and indoor skating rink. Local residents and community leaders, including Independent Assembly member Fiona Carrick, express devastation over the loss of a beloved community facility and green space. Critics argue that the approval process was flawed and lacked proper analysis of community needs. The first stage of the development includes two thirteen-story towers with two hundred eighty-six units, along with proposed aquatic facilities. Geocon plans to continue operating the current outdoor pool and ice rink during construction, with the fifty-meter pool demolished in stage two and the ice rink in stage three. Community efforts to save the existing Phillip pool have intensified since Geocon acquired the lease for the Phillip site in 2022.

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