Official Information Request - Swimming Pools Inspections

Sent: Friday, 9 April 2021 2:32 pm

Subject: Request for information - swimming pool inspections

I refer to your email of 26 March 2021 regarding swimming pool inspections. This has been processed under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act. I respond below as per your request:

1. The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries as at 1st January 2014. 1,446
2. The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries as at 1st January 2017. 1,631
3. The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries as at 1st January 2020. 601
4. The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that had a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2014 and 31st December 2016.Accurate records were not kept over this time period. The majority of previous pool inspections were completed in 1998 by Building Inspectors.
5. The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that did not have a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2014 and 31st December 2016.Accurate records were not kept over this time period. The majority of previous pool inspections were completed in 1998 by Building Inspectors.
6. The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that failed a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2014 and 31st December 2016.Accurate records were not kept over this time period. The majority of previous pool inspections were completed in 1998 by Building Inspectors.
7. The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that had a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2017 and 31st December 2019.545
8. The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that did not have a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2017 and 31st December 2019.10
9. The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that failed a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2017 and 31st December 2019.255
10. The number of residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that failed a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2017 and 31st December 2019 that had passed the most recent previous pool inspection conducted prior to 2017.79
11. For the residential swimming pools within Council boundaries that failed a pool inspection conducted on them between 1st January 2017 and 31st December 2019 that had passed a previous pool inspection conducted before 2017, provide the following additional information:

• 1. Number that had made consented changes to the circumstances of the pool1
  2. Number that had made unconsented changes to the circumstances of the pool77
  3. Number that had no changes to the circumstances of the pool 0

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