Avon bathing plans rejected

IT SEEMS the Avon at Stratford is not clean enough for swimming as its bathing plans have been rejected.

The plans were to create bathing quality stretches of the Avon near Stratford, but have been rejected by government body Ofwat, Roger Fox reports.

Spent elsewhere

So the government's money of £78million is being spent on the Leam at Leamington and on the Teme in Ludlow instead.

The problem with the Avon was that last summer teenagers fell ill after swimming in the river at Stratford’s Old Bathing, but Severn Trent had hoped to include that stretch of the Avon in the scheme to create safe bathing waters.

In not including Stratford for the scheme, Ofwat reported that Severn Trent had not shown that there was enough demand for bathing at Stratford and it would therefore not be cost-efficient.