The Council cabinet meeting decided to go ahead with a two-stage redevelopment of the pool site.

The first part is a short-term scheme to demolish the buildings and create a terrace to the river, at an estimated cost of £505,000.

The second phase is to build a commercial development with public open space and a public asset.

Details of what the asset will be are to be worked out with community involvement in a “Twickenham Challenge”. (No more information on the challenge was available at the meeting.)