Campaigners pressing for the re-opening of the Oasis Centre will meet with senior leaders in charge of its future.

Save Oasis Swindon want to present as many views as possible from people across the borough about what they’d want to see from a rebuilt centre at the meeting when it meets with Swindon council leader David Renard and leaseholders Seven Capital next month.

The campaign group’s Facebook account said: “Pleased to confirm that Save Oasis Swindon will be hosting a meeting with Seven Capital in Swindon next month, near the Oasis along with various councillors.

In addition, a leisure architect who worked with the original Oasis architects and designed Coral Reef in Bracknell will be joining us.

The meeting will last a few hours, followed by a walk around the Oasis site. We will be discussing the Oasis restoration in detail, along with the housing plans for the site.”

While Swindon Borough Council owns the land in North Star where the centre is sited, Seven Capital, primarily known as a builder of flats and houses, holds a 99-year lease on the building, making it effectively the owner.

The company has just been given planning consent for its plans to renovate the centre, keeping the listed pool and dome, but recovering the dome with more modern, better-performing materials.

The rest of the building, according to the plans, will be rebuilt without the sports hall and music venue.

The SOS group has launched a questionnaire about what people want to see from a rebuilt, re-opened Oasis so it can present them to Seven Capital and the council at the March 1 meeting.

So far more than 400 responses have been made to the survey which is available from the campaign’s website at www.saveoasisswindon.co.uk.

The centre, which was built in 1976 was leased to Seven Capital about 10 years ago- and the company contracted specialist firm Better to run it.

But Better said it would not re-open the centre after the autumn lockdown in 2020 saying it was too difficult to make a profit, citing in particular the costs of heating the space over the pool under the dome, which is poorly insulated.

Since then, Seven Capital came up with a new plan for the building without its famous dome- but that was withdrawn after the government listed the dome and pool as buildings of architectural or historic importance.

There has been no indication of when work might start on the new plans which were recently approved by the council’s planners.