OUR PLANS
Stakeholder Alignment
Our plans are aligned with the community's wishes for the site to be brought back into community use. They also reflect local priorities, are aligned with Leeds City Council's policies and plans, and adhere to the Otley Neighbourhood Plan.
We shall continue to engage and consult with stakeholders – including the community – as we develop our plans in order to ensure our approach remains aligned with stakeholders' wishes.
Aligned with local priorities – including Otley Neighbourhood Plan and 'Leeds Best City Ambition' – to deliver the impacts our community and stakeholders are seeking.
Friends of Otley Lido
For clarity the ward Councillors, notwithstanding Otley Lido's aspirations (which we hope are successful), regard the old pool site as part of Wharfemeadows Park in the same way as the bowling green and the children’s play area. They and the community would regard its sale for development as morally untenable.
Cllr Colin Campbell (Otley & Yeadon)
The project is aligned with Leeds City Council's 'Best City Ambition' contributing to each of the '3 Pillars' – 'health and wellbeing', 'inclusive growth' and 'zero carbon'.
With projected visit numbers of circa 100,000 per annum spread across the venue's facilities – plus the free to access community hub building additional users of Otley Riverside – the contribution to the city would be considerable.
The venue would also achieve Leeds City Council's ambition "to develop an outdoor water play facility in one of our parks".
Inspiring and enabling people to visit Otley Riverside
Promoting and supporting health and wellbeing means more to us than simply providing new facilities and opportunities. It includes inspiring people to visit the riverside and undertake their own 'informal' activities and utilise the existing resouces. In order to enable people to do this, the venue provides a free to access community hub to enhance the riverside facilities and make undertaking physical activity and social interactions easier and more fun.
Our proposals for the site adhere to, and are aligned with, the Otley Neighbourhood Plan 2018-2028. Indeed, both the lido and the FoOL are included in the plan.
The key points of alignment are:
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Contributes to the overall vision of realising the potential of the riverside as a community, tourist and day visitor attraction
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Provision of better community, cultural, leisure, health and educational facilities for all
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A better deal for teenagers and young people
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Creates jobs in tourism
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Limited development that improves riverside leisure, recreation and hospitality activity
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Preserves and sympathetically enhances Otley’s built and natural heritage
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Promotes innovative use of disused site and buildings=
