A new swimming pool will be built in Dinard, a 10 million euro project

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This summer, the mayor of Dinard found support from four municipalities of the Emerald Coast Community of Communes in order to develop the project for a new swimming pool in Dinard, behind the Cosec sports complex. As a result, a working group was initiated a few months ago with members of the sports commission of the City of Dinard and the mayors of Lancieux, Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, Saint-Lunaire and Tréméreuc.

“We are flirting with a million euros deficit”

“We have chosen to accelerate this project, in order to put an end to the financial hemorrhage of the current swimming pool in the city center of Dinard, facing Écluse beach. Every year we flirt with a million euros deficit (particularly due to its energy consumption)! It's money that we're throwing out the window every time, when it could be used to finance the construction of the new swimming pool,” said Arnaud Salmon, mayor of Dinard.

Two 25 meter pools

For the moment, it is the City of Dinard which will fully carry out the construction project of this swimming pool, in order to go faster. This has already resulted in the launch of an architectural competition on Friday December 13. The creation of an intercommunal union with a single vocation (SIVU) with Lancieux, Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, Saint-Lunaire and Tréméreuc (1) is being considered to formalize this collective support around a project of two basins of 25 meters in fresh water, one indoors, the other outdoors.

100 to 140,000 bathers per year expected

“The objectives of this swimming pool will be to continue the learning of swimming for our schools and the practice of swimming for the general public. We want to provide a complementary service linked to well-being and aging well, to generate additional revenue. » 100 to 140,000 bathers per year are hoped for, compared to 20,000 for the current swimming pool in downtown Dinard.

At what location?

The mayor of Dinard is convinced that a swimming pool in Cosec, rather than in the city center, will have the effect of attracting many more swimmers to the left bank. The current Cosec car park will be enlarged by around a hundred spaces to facilitate the arrival of the public. Soil studies launched by the City of Dinard, near the sports complex, a few months ago, made it possible to identify two locations to accommodate the future swimming pool: “Either on the rugby field behind the Bocage college, or above the basketball court. » The expansion of the car park could lead to the removal of an existing sports field behind the Cosec, but all this still remains to be defined.

Architect competition

On the website www.ville-dinard.fr, the City has just launched a competition for architects to imagine the swimming pool of tomorrow. After receiving the application files, “we will choose three architects in February 2025. Between February and June, they will then have to present us with the outline of the project” announces Arnaud Salmon.

The jury which will be required to deliberate will include members of the City's tender commission, representatives of the four CCCE communities which support the project, but also architects and engineers. The winner will be chosen in June 2025.

A €10 million project

“The cost of the swimming pool equipment is estimated at €10 million excluding tax. It will be necessary to add to this amount the costs of studies, the additional costs of parking and those of a collective boiler room for the swimming pool and the two Cosec buildings,” explains the mayor. In the best case scenario, “the work could start in 2027, for delivery in the first half of 2029. In the meantime, we will do our best to keep the city center swimming pool running until 2029.” The councilor believes that “ Dinard is able to finance the construction of this swimming pool in its Multi-year Investment Plan (PPI). »

The hope of an intercommunal swimming pool

Elected officials hope that after the 2026 municipal elections, the financing of the swimming pool will rest in the hands of the CCCE. “For 50 years, the City of Dinard alone supported the swimming pool which benefited the inhabitants of the left bank. It therefore seems normal to me that this would be entrusted to the intercommunality, at one time or another” defends Michel Penhouët, the mayor of Saint-Lunaire. “It’s important to move forward by joining forces with Dinard’s elected officials, because a mandate goes by quickly. We need this swimming pool, for residents, it’s part of living well! »

“Without a swimming pool in Dinard, what would we do? »

“From the start, I have supported this intercommunal swimming pool project at Cosec. For Lancieutins, it’s not far,” says Delphine Briand, mayor of Lancieux, who wants the project to move forward quickly. “As a community representative, I am a little ashamed to see that in five years, we have not managed to agree on this issue. If the Dinard swimming pool fails, what do we do? » Same story on the side of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, represented by the deputy mayor Mélanie Billot-Toullic: “Without a swimming pool in Dinard, we will have to turn towards Dinan or Saint-Malo, which would be less obvious for the population. »

(1) Remember that the other mayors of the CCCE, Pleurtuit, Le Minihic-sur-Rance and La Richardais, had launched a public consultation, in 2022, in their municipalities to consider other locations.

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