Sign here, please: Save Haggerston Baths campaigners launch petition

Haggerston Baths. Photograph: The Victorian Society

Campaigners hoping to reopen derelict Haggerston Baths have launched a petition calling on Hackney Council to list the building as an “asset of community value”.

If the Grade-II listed Victorian-era pool is listed it would allow local residents to put in a bid to buy it themselves and ‘pause’ any sale of the land to developers.

The council says financial pressure means it has no plans to reopen the pool at present.

Last year building conservation group The Victorian Society named the pool on Whiston Road as one of the 10 most endangered buildings in England and Wales.

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