Latest PT news updates - September - December
St George's Community Hydrotherapy Pool
21st September
The Peterborough Telegraph featured the following article about the devastaing impact the closure of St George's is having on its service users - https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/health/peterborough-hydrotherapy-pool-users-left-bed-bound-following-decision-to-shut-site-3849287
25th September
St George’s Friends and Service Users group has submitted comments on Thistlemoor Medical Centre’s plans to build a hydrotherapy complex to Peterborough City’s Council's Planning Department.
3rd Novermber
The hydrotherapy service users comments, which are public, can be viewed here - http://plandocs.peterborough.gov.uk/PublicDocuments/01288483.pdf
The full plans for the complex - 22/01142/FUL - can be viewed and commented upon here - https://planpa.peterborough.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=RGEGHDML04U00
28th September
Details of four-week hydrotherapy trial at Lime Academy announced - https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/politics/trial-announced-for-hydro-pool-facilities-at-city-school-3859284
St George's service users lead welcomes the trial but expresses some important concerns - https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/health/concerns-raised-over-costs-of-new-hydrotherapy-pool-trial-with-users-facing-a-300-per-cent-increase-in-price-3859731
12th October
The Peterborough Telegraph features St George's Service Users' concerns (see 25th September) regarding the plans for a new hydrotherapy pool - https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/people/concerns-raised-over-hydrotherapy-plans-which-has-pool-on-first-floor-3875796
24th October
3rd November
25th November
News that the hydrotherapy sessions at Lime Academy will continue until Christmas -
https://www.peterborough.gov.uk/news/hydrotherapy-sessions-to-continue-in-peterborough
10th December
14th December
Contact Information
St George's Community Hydrotherapy Pool
- 01733 453583
- www.hydrotherapypeterborough.com
Find St George's Community Hydrotherapy Pool
367 Dogsthorpe Road, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 3RE
Additional Information
You can contact the pool by emailing: stgeorges@vivacity.org The pool is part of the old St George’s School building (now Heltwate St George's). The entrance is on Dogsthorpe Road near the Dogsthorpe fire station. There is free car park by the pool's entrance.