That the Parliament regrets that the City of Edinburgh Council has accepted a bid to sell Leith Waterworld to A&G Property Group for £1 million to create a soft play and leisure facility; considers that this is a huge blow to the local community, which has been working in cooperation with council officials and councillors to progress a bid to reopen Leith Waterworld as a community hub for health and wellbeing; expresses great disappointment that this commercial bid has, it considers, derailed the first cooperative project that the council has embarked on with Edinburgh's citizens; recognises that the Splashback campaign began in November 2011 to prevent the loss of what it considers a unique water facility and commends the hard work of all those involved; is concerned that this decision goes against the council's previous commitment on 31 January 2013 when councillors voted overwhelmingly to work with Splashback until the end of the year and to develop a feasible business plan for a community-run Leith Waterworld; believes that the council’s decision to divert the money that would have been invested in reopening the pool into primary age swimming will not compensate for the massive loss through the permanent closure of Leith Waterworld; notes that the Scottish Government has supported Scottish Swimming’s Start to Swim programme, aimed at introducing babies and young children to swimming as early as possible; considers that Leith Waterworld provided a unique facility well suited to babies, children, families and disabled people; calls on all members, in the context of the proposed Community Empowerment and Renewal Bill, to ensure that Scotland’s communities are supported to take independent action to achieve their goals and to have their voices heard in the decisions that affect them, and recognises the importance of effective community management and cooperative models, which it believes are key to the long-term success of empowering and renewing communities.