This is not the first time that a developer has looked at the pool

Back in 2007/2008 a developer wanted to build a private hospital fronting

Hyam Street and high-rise units on the pool site.

The problem for the Council was that the land was not for sale - it is community title - but also that the community would kick up a ruckus about closing a pool.

The plan died in the end, but before it did, Beryl Bryce, now 80 years of age and the granddaughter of the man who built from his own resources Nowra's first pool in the river with access from his own land, smelled that the effort would be repeated.

Beryl smelled a rat and guessed that the Council would probably overcome the problem that it wasn't theirs by reclassifying it, but the only way around the upset by the community was to let the pool die the death of a thousand cuts by stories about its age and need of repair and use of water. Fortunately Greg Watson and the Independents had enough votes on Council to keep the pool going.

That is no longer the case.

Beryl set it out in a letter to the Minister.

Click here for the letter. It is worth reading.

Maybe Beryl was wrong , but it sure looks strange all the stories about the pool closing because of 'problems'

It looks as though if the pool closes that it will be plain sailing for the developers.