Budleigh Salterton - in East Devon is the entry to both the Triassic and Jurassic coasts
The Pepplebeds are a landmark feature of the World Heritage site
Sidmouth and Exmouth have swimming pools, covered, for all the year round use and very expensive they are both to build and maintain. Both places also have good access to the beach for swimmers. Budleigh Salterton has neither of these.
Access to the beach and swimming pool cafe at Sidmouth
Children of primary school age should learn to swim before leaving as part of the school curriculum. St Peter's Primary School has an indoor pool but it is very small and far from ideal for general use. It is not available for public use.
Topsham has an outdoor heated pool that is run by vounteers and costs relatively little to operate. There are many other examples of smaller places in Devon where local initiatives have produced similar pools. Such pools are often equipped with "green" equipment, utilising the surface of tennis courts, for example, so as to obtain environmentally efficient heat energy.
But at the very least Budleigh Salterton needs good and safe swimming access to the beach and off the beach where commercial and leisure boating activites are properly ocntrolled and this need not be very costly. In this example (Jacob's Ladder) a much more difficult beach access problem has been solved by a realtively few simple and inexpensive structures.
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