‘Economic stimulus money could breathe life into Fort’

Tuesday 3rd November 2009, 2:58PM GMT.

The report was produced by the Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny panel, led by Deputy Roy Le Hérissier,

ECONOMIC stimulus money should be put into Fort Regent, according to the head of a Scrutiny review.

Repair work on the ramparts, restoring gardens and improved signage could all be ‘temporary, timely and targeted’ projects that could breathe life back into the Fort, says Deputy Roy Le Hérissier.

His Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny panel published a report yesterday saying that the site was underfunded and that the 2003 decision to close the swimming pool there was ‘a fundamental mistake’.

But the report also said that Fort Regent was still a sporting success story, and that the Active Card and exercise referral schemes had brought more people in.

Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Deputy Le Hérissier said that some of the £44m in economic stimulus funding should go towards small but necessary projects to ‘do up’ the site.

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