Swimming: Water
Commons · Question 68849 · Tabled 17 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Freddie van Mierlo
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled Designate a bathing water: guidance on how to apply, updated on 15 May 2025, for what reason applications cannot include organised
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 22 Jul 2025
As per the criteria set out on GOV.UK, for a site to be eligible for designation as a bathing water, it must be used by an average of at least 100 bathers a day during the bathing season (15 May to 30 September). User surveys must be taken at a site to ev...