It?s a shame that the subject of the pools has been turned into a political issue. Decisions such as this should be based on financial analysis and the needs of current and future residents, not emotion or politics. I am certainly not a fan of labour nor am I one of the so called time rich chattering classes. The politicians must be laughing, rather than there being any focus on the issue in hand the residents of Forest Hill are now fighting amongst themselves, see fit to name call, bitch and attempt to polarise opinion.

When I was at primary school I was taken too the pools every Wednesday in a battered coach, spent an hour avoiding flaking paint and other things floating in the pool and thourghly enjoyed it. The building has been a mess for years, we can blame successive councils but what is the point, all that matters is now and the future. Learn from history but don?t let it dictate the future.

Forest Hill is rapidly deteriorating what we need is something too be proud of, something to attract businesses and something that benefits the local population, A dilapidated set of buildings does not achieve any of these.