Installed Sites

HORSHAM DISTRICT COUNCIL
The Pavilions in the Park Horsham

Horsham District Council, a midsized rural community in southeast England, has for some time been planning the community's major new Leisure and Swimming Complex. Housing a health and fitness facility, a dedicated gymnastics centre and four separate swimming areas, the new Pavilions in the Park is designed to meet local community requirements. But it was a chance glance at the BBC's Tomorrow's World television program in 2001that gave Horsham District Council Officers an idea to enhance the centre's plans. Recreation Manager Steve Hawker explains :

"We saw a program about Poseidon, a computer-aided drowning detection system that had just been installed in a pool outside of London, the first in the country. The concept intrigued us, enough to set up a meeting at the pool to see the system for ourselves."

Opened in December 2002, Pavilions in the Park now hosts an extensive swimming programme, including 2,300 swimming lessons each week, in its range of pools. The facility has a 25 meter by eight lane conventional pool with a moveable floor, a small teaching pool, a water confidence pool for babies and toddlers, and leisure waters, an area of water indoors and outdoors for leisure swimming with bubble beds, moving water, jets and splash areas. At the moment, Poseidon is installed in the main pool. Horsham District Council, however, made sure the entire facility has the infrastructure and cabling ready for all pools to be Poseidon-equipped, thus enabling expanded installation in the future.