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Crematorium heats swimming pool

A CASH-strapped council has revealed plans to heat a swimming pool using furnaces at a nearby crematorium.

Town hall chiefs want to use excess heat generated by the incinerator to warm the water for swimmers - and save £14,500-a-year on heating bills.

If approved, Redditch Borough Council will be the first authority in the country to use a crematorium to heat a swimming pool.

The council has outlined plans to heat Abbey Stadium Sports Centre from the cremators at neighbouring Borough Of Redditch Cemeteries & Crematorium.

Currently, heat from the incinerators - which reach 800 degrees C (1,472F) - is lost into the atmosphere.

Council chiefs say it will save cash and is a greener way of powering the leisure centre.

But local people have expressed concerns at the proposals, branding them “eerie”.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .