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Attention keen swimmers, because a new lido with a sauna is coming to east London next year. Let’s hope it gives the eternally overpopulated London Fields Lido some much needed respite.
The 50-metre fresh water lido, with outdoor saunas, has been announced for Canary Wharf and will hopefully open for summer 2026. Sea Lanes Canary Wharf will be a floating, fresh water pool within Eden Dock. Open water swimming has been a spring and summer fixture at Eden Dock for the past couple of years already, but this will see the whole area upgraded and turned into a permanent pool with lanes and a wooden boardwalk all around the swimming area.
As well as having hot boxes, the spot will be home to a community club house hosting fitness classes and talks, and have food and drink offerings. Catering to even the hardiest of open water fanatics, swimming will be open all year round.
The six-lane Olympic-sized pool will be fully life guarded and 1.3 metres deep. Its naturally filtered water, cut off from the Thames, promises to be ‘perfectly clear’ and is consistently rated ‘excellent’ by EU Bathing Standards
It’s being built by the team behind the very successful Sea Lanes Brighton, the UK’s first National Open Water Swimming Centre.
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