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What can we do with an unwanted swimming pool?

An empty, untidy, private swimming pool
An unloved swimming pool – opportunity, or just a money pit? Photograph: nick read/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy

Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.

We have fallen in love with a house that is perfect for us in every respect bar one – it has a swimming pool. We have never wanted one, and fear it will turn into a money pit. Short of paying to fill it in, is there anything that can done with it – preferably something green that would encourage wildlife?

Do you have a problem readers could solve? Email your suggestions to money@theguardian.com or write to us at Money, the Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU

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