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# Lichfield MP won’t be at Friary Grange Leisure Centre meeting – but hopes facility can be saved
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/lichfield-mp-wont-be-at-friary-grange-leisure-centre-meeting-but-hopes-facility-can-be-saved/
- Published: 2019-10-06T16:21:04.000Z
- Updated: 2019-10-06T16:33:11.000Z
- Description: Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant has confirmed he will not be at a meeting to decide the future of Friary Grange Leisure Centre – but says he is backing campaigners fighting to save it.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:18, News

Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant has confirmed he will not be at a meeting to decide the future of Friary Grange Leisure Centre – but says he is backing campaigners fighting to save it.

![Friary Grange Leisure Centre](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/friary-grange-leisure-centre.jpg)

Friary Grange Leisure Centre

Thousands signed a petition forcing a review of plans to shut the city’s last public leisure centre.

Lichfield District Council will make a decision at a special meeting of the Cabinet being held at the Garrick theatre tomorrow (7th October).

Mr Fabricant said that although he would not be there, he hoped a way to save the centre would be found.

![Michael Fabricant](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/speaking-competition-2018-013-2.jpg)

Michael Fabricant

“Unfortunately, I have to be in Westminster on Monday evening,” he said. “I am on a Parliamentary committee passing a law on airline competition post-Brexit as well as other legislation.

“But the council know I strongly support the need to keep a public swimming pool in the city and I have discussed this both with the Council and with The Friary School.

“I will continue to stay in close contact with Cllr Doug Pullen \[leader of the council\] regarding this and have asked that he apologises for me and explains the reasons for my absence from the meeting on Monday evening. 

“Doug and I think as one about this issue so I am hoping for a positive outcome.

“I know that the council has been negotiating hard with the county council who own the facility and with The Friary School on whose grounds it is situated.”