Summary
It was unfortunate that in printing my letter about the bottomless pit of taxpayers' money otherwise known as Plymouth City Council, you chose to omit a reference to Marjon planning to make academic staff redundant in order to build a new swimming pool. I am informed that staff have already received letters, or are about to do so, warning them their jobs are at risk. While this was not the main point of my letter, such desperate measures do indicate how serious is the lack of swimming pool provision in the city - something for which the council, and the council alone, is responsible - and how little we get for what we pay. Even the Government is, belatedly, shifting its focus from the impending financial and logistical disaster of the 2012 Olympics and trying to encourage more ordinary people to swim for health and fitness, but those wishing to do so in Plymouth would have a pretty thin time of it. At a time when North Cornwall District Council - a tiny authority by comparison, but one with five (five!) swimming pools in its far-flung catchment area - is confident enough in its sporting facilities to be able to offer users a 'buy one, get the second half- price' deal to encourage wider public participation, with concomitant increases not only in revenue but in public health, Plymouth must secretly be glad that more people in the city don't want to swim - or, more likely, can't face the prospect of fighting their way into the few massively oversubscribed pools which remain - otherwise its pathetic facilities would collapse under the strain.
CORINNE MARSHALLSee the full content of this document
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