Tim Walder, are you really so naive?

Don't you think that at LBL they realized that there are huge savings there? At the cost of one pool for the local community.
Don't you understand that that's where this thing is going towards?
Once a pool opens at one end of Sydenham Road the other one at the other end is clearly redundant. That's half a million saved year on year.

And option one doesn't get cross-subsidy from any use of Willow way. Why? Because it would make it possible maybe?

I place my vote and it's for Option 1!

Option 2 does not look bad but it's got a ?5.5m budget gap and a Council unwilling to bridge it therefore insisting on that means delays, and delays and delays.... and a very high risk of losing it all.

Option 3 is wrong for a number of reasons but swimming-wise is an all out disaster and must therefore be opposed strenuously.

I think that the chart of risks should be rewritten and the SFFH should consider looking at it with impartiality rather that closing on Option 1 through a "gasp and a wince at the ugliness of it". We all have preferences but sometimes we ought to raise above that.