This is turning into a true public sector procurement spectacular, in the best of British tradition.

This has now developed from an idiotic unwillingness or inability to maintain a building, through a long period in which nothing productive happens and in which no-one can actually do any swimming, but during which designs are produced, then scrapped because they are too expensive, then the goalposts moved, more designs produced, the goalposts moved again, etc etc...

The next phase to watch out for is a solution which fails to meet the original need, starts late, is delivered even later, runs massively over budget (several times the cost of any of the original options and ooh, who knows, anything from 10 to 100 times the cost of the original repair and maintenance works), is widely derided and then has to close again, either shortly after opening for various repairs and/or for good 15-20 years later.