Welcome to Will Woodhouse, who is a Chartered landscape architect and lives
in Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire.

Will runs a business designing and building Natural Swimming Pools in
people's gardens.

He wants to contact owners and operators of closed or loss-making lidos to
see if they would like to convert their pools into a natural public swimming
pool. Once a few pools are interested, they will jointly need to develop
acceptable Quality Standards for natural pool operation.
This is why he has joined the Lidos Yahoo Group.

He wrote to me:
"With no chemicals the water is cleaner, softer and wonderful to swim in. If
the site is suitable, more all year round recreational facilities can be
developed, as they are also stunning water gardens. They will be warmer and
wild-life friendly and cost considerably less to run. There is a very good
track record of public natural pools in Central Europe, eg Austria. If you
want more information look at our website
http://www.naturalswimmingpools.com/ and the link to Biotop
http://www.biotop-natural-pool.com/ our partner and the inventors of Natural
Swimming Pools."

They have built a 250 sq metre demonstration pool in Weston Colville, near
Newmarket, which is open to try on Saturday 21 June (2-10pm).

Please contact me (or him via their website) if you would like an
invitation. Numbers are limited.

Oliver

PS What about Hendy, I wonder?