A very popular cooling method in Australia (and it would work even better in the UK most of the year) is to get a food grade plastic water carrier "cube", depending on the size of your batch, from a camping store or a hardware warehouse. Wash and sterilize well and run your boiling wort right into it to fill it almost to the top, tip it onto its side to sterilize any headspace, seal up and leave till cool, which should be overnight generally.
Like making jam or chutney you end up with a package that you can actually store for up to a year but most guys pitch as soon as possible. I just went on a 2 week holiday and left a cube of Irish Red wort sitting in the garage, pitched it on return. I've done over 200 brews using this method and never had one go "off" in a cube, in fact one of my cubes is old faithful #1 from 2008 (the cube not the contents haha).
In fact as I've posted elsewhere a few Aussie craft breweries do cubed wort on an industrial scale for you to brew at home and they have a shelf life of up to 18 months.
PS get yourself a pair of heavy duty industrial gloves

and beware children and small pets