WATCH: Eye-opening footage captures significant progress at Hilsea Lido as multi-million pound project starts

Portsmouth City Council is redeveloping the run down outdoor pool as part of the Hilsea Lines project in the north of the city using government funding from its Levelling Up fund. The council has described the project as a ‘complex’ one and it is due to take a year for the work to be completed. 

The pool has been drained and the base will be stabilised. The team are currently working on clearing the plant room in order to install a modern filtration system which will be used for years to come. The previous filtration system used huge steel cylinders full of salt, but over the years that the lido has been in use, the salt has significantly hardened making it difficult for the salt to be broken down.

Footage has captured the progress that the workers have already made since the start of the project, which is due to take a year. The lido is expected to re-open in spring 2025 which will be in time for the summer and the 100th anniversary of the lido opening.

Once the first stage of the project is completed, the team will move onto the second phase which will see work being completed to create new changing units and new pipework will be installed in deep trenches. 

For more information about the Hilsea Lido project, click here.