THE old Leyton Baths is hardly the place to establish a neighbourhood recreation office base at a possible cost of £15,000, councillors have agreed.
Leisure committee members were asked to approve a £1/4m budget for works to set up five bases throughout the borough.
The other offices are to be at Chingford Assembly Hall, Waltham Forest Pool, Kelmscott Leisure Centre and Cathall Leisure Centre.
Tory Councillor Jane Watts fumed: "Why the hell spend £15,000 at Leyton on a building which is absolutely useless because of its disrepair?
"I am astonished we are proposing to do anything to Leyton Baths," said Labour's Councillor Jo Brind.
Under pressure from both the Conservative and Alliance groups, the committee agreed to reduce the estimates to £100,000.
Recreation officers have been asked to look for an appropriate shop front as an alternative to office facilities at Leyton Baths, due to close soon to make way for the new Leyton Leisure Lagoon.
