1.      That the Council’s Leisure Facilities Strategy as set out in Appendix A to the report, as amended, be adopted.

2.      That in response to the Sustainable Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee, the Executive

         (i)      welcomes the Committee’s comments as to the comprehensive nature of the review;

         (ii)     invites the Committee to review a more detailed financial information regarding the leisure capital programme when it considers the overall capital programme proposals at it’s meeting on 17 January 2013;

(iii)       notes that development of the Leisure Strategy is progressing in accordance with the agreed timetable; and

(iv)        requests detailed investigations and the development of a business plan to reopen Houghton Regis Leisure Centre Swimming Pool, and in parallel reviews the reopening of Houghton Regis Leisure Centre swimming pool once the outcome of the new Leisure Management Contract tendering process is complete where the revenue impact of doing so will be a priced option.