DROITWICH SPA BRINE BATHS.
Droitwich Spa’s brine baths, located within the ‘BMI’ Private Hospital, St.Andrews Road, closed to the public in 2008. The private hospital has given Wychavon District Council £200,000 in compensation for closing 18 months before the end of their 25 year contract.
The historic public brine baths had been empty for some ten years when, in 1984, Wychavon Council leased land, for 125 years, to a Health company to build themselves a hospital. This was to include a brine baths which would stay open to the public for at least 25 years.
Pam said:- “ Wychavon District Council has now set up a Task Force to gather information which, hopefully, will lead to a new way of promoting our ‘Brine Heritage’ so that it may continue to play an important part in the future of the Spa.”
The task force meets in Droitwich Spa and comprises of:- a Councillor nominated by Droitwich Spa Town Council, a member of the Droitwich Area partnership (a Spa District and County Councillor), a representative from ‘4 Droitwich Spa’ (who has himself given years of voluntary work on a wide range of Spa activities and events).
The only member not from Droitwich is the Executive board member who has been tasked to lead this group. He, incidentally, has served on the Droitwich Canals Trust for the past two years. There are no ‘commercial groups’ or ‘other Councillors from elsewhere’.
The remit of the Task Force is to assemble facts and identify opportunities, then report back to the Executive Board.”
Pam went on to say that:- “Long before firm decisions are taken all the people of the Spa will have had the opportunity to voice their opinion on how our brine inheritance can best be promoted, for the benefit of the whole community, at a cost which the rate payer can reasonably be expected to pay.”
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