Liberal Democrats will call for a cross-party commitment to guarantee keeping Yearsley Pool open at a meeting of York’s Full Council tomorrow.

The £250,000 a year funding for Yearsley Pool will be cut in 2016 as part of a leisure package agreed by Labour run York Council last month. Yearsley Pool Action Group has said the pool could close as a result of the cut.

Yearsley Pool

Lib Dems are asking councillors to support a proposal which calls on York Council to examine ways to reduce the subsidy given to Yearsley Pool, but guarantee to keep it open.
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