Parramatta residents will have one last summer to enjoy their public pool before it closes.Credit:Steven Siewert
"Subject to the finalisation of funding arrangements,the City of Parramatta Council will be responsible for delivering the new aquatic centre,"Mr Ayres said on Wednesday.
But the North Parramatta Residents Action Group,which has opposed the closure of the pool since it was first flagged in February,said the announcement was nothing more than a promise to conduct a feasibility study.
"Until we see a like-for-like pool under construction,the War Memorial pool must remain open,"the group's president Suzette Meade said.
Ms Meade said the Parramatta War Memorial pool,which was first opened in 1959,was greatly valued by the community,given their distance from the ocean.