{"id":17213,"date":"2017-11-10T17:32:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T17:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=17213"},"modified":"2017-11-10T17:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T17:32:40","slug":"belfast-city-council-to-splash-out-on-templemore-historic-baths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=17213","title":{"rendered":"Belfast City Council to splash out on Templemore historic baths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Belfast_Telegraph_website_image101117.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17214\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Belfast_Telegraph_website_image101117.png\" alt=\"Belfast Telegraph image\" width=\"250\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Belfast City Council is planning a \u00a317m revamp of Victorian Templemore pool, one of the oldest swimming pools in Belfast, into a 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century leisure centre and spa, but is relying on securing funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to complete the project.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image &#8211; Belfast Telegraph website<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Belfast Telegraph writes:<\/p>\n<p>One of the oldest swimming pools in Belfast is to be transformed into a 21st century leisure centre and spa, it can be revealed. Templemore Baths opened as one of four public pools across the city in the 1890s at a cost then of \u00a321,660.\u00a0 It provided washing facilities for a rapidly increasing population moving into east Belfast from the countryside for jobs at the shipyard and other enterprises such as Sirocco and the mills\u2026<\/p>\n<p>However, the council is relying on securing funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to complete the project. The council secured a development grant of \u00a3380,000 last October from the HLF to produce a detailed proposal for the future of the building. The total estimated cost is \u00a317m, with the council hoping the gap from the \u00a312m it is stumping up will be filled with a HLF grant. Belfast City Council is currently undertaking a \u00a3105m upgrade of its leisure centres.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/northern-ireland\/belfast-city-council-to-splash-out-on-historic-baths-36039414.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belfast City Council is planning a \u00a317m revamp of Victorian Templemore pool, one of the oldest swimming pools in Belfast, into a 21st Century leisure centre and spa, but is relying on securing funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=17213\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17215,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions\/17215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}