BROMYARD'S bid for a swimming pool continues after suffering another setback this week.

Town councillor Dave Cave, a member of the Swimming Pool Working Party, said that an application for a pool to be built adjacent to the Hereford Road entrance of Queen Elizabeth High School was turned down on Tuesday.

He said: "We're now awaiting a response from the chairman of the governors of the school after writing to ask them to reconsider an alternative site suggested by their headteacher, just inside the main entrance to the school.

"This comes after the site suggested by the governors, adjacent to the Hereford road frontage was objected to by both the divisional highway engineer on access grounds and by the assistant area planning officer because it was quite an elevated site in relation to the road."

The hoped for 25 x 8.5 metre community pool would enable schoolchildren from 10 surrounding schools and a population of 12,500 to have local facilities for swimming lessons, cutting travel time to the nearest pools which are at least 12 miles away.

Although permission was granted for a pool adjacent to the school's gyms in 1980, the present governors did not agree to the use of the site.

In the meantime, one of the committee's members organising monthly swimming sessions at the pool in Abberley Hall private school near Great Witley is keen to hear from voluntary life-savers.

Anyone interested should contact Mrs Yvonne King on 01885 482508.