DG One

THE "MISSION STATEMENT AT THE TOP OF Dumfries and Galloway Council's website is "Our vision is to make Dumfries and Galloway the best place in Scotland to live, learn, work, visit and grow"

DG One is the Dumfries and Galloway Council's flagship leisure facility. Completion of the building took place in May 2008. Since then, there have been a number of disruptions to the leisure services at DG One, including closure of the pools and games hall. It has now had one of its main facilities out of commission for a total of nearly 300 days since it opened. Following these closures, the Council appointed independent technical experts to investigate and report on the cause of the problems experienced at DG One. A detailed schedule of defects was prepared and presented to the Council. The list of defects relate to both the dryside (gym, games hall, bar) and the wetside (training pool, swimming pool, changing village). The remedial works required to address the defects were also identified by the technical experts. The cost of addressing all of the defects identified is estimated at £3.7 million.
The building was dogged by problems even before it was opened. Commissioned by Dumfries and Galloway Council, it cost £17 million to the public purse and opened several months late.
The Council will now put arrangements in train to undertake the necessary remedial works. In order to do so, the Council anticipates that the building will have to be closed to the public from January 2014. Remedial works to the dryside will take approximately 4 months to complete with the wetside being out of use for a further 13 months.

And I bet that will not be the end of the problems.