Satchers, I really don't understand. The public rejected Dartmouth Road last year, the council is offering something other than Dartmouth Road and being lambasted for not listening. Eh? They can't win. (And how evil of them to use wards, ie the divisions in which they are elected and nearly all their internal administration runs, and not some imprecise local divining method to decide what is Forest Hill and what isn't, by the way). The short-sighted rejection of Dartmouth Road is the underlying problem here. Just because something is popular doesn't make it right. There are only so many sites available in the area, and if we Paisley our way through all of them how are we to KSIFH?

Michael apart, there seems no appreciation of what the council's obligations are, not least the fact that building a pool in Forest Hill is not the only one they have. I'm not sure of the logic behind the 2015 thing either, but personally I could forgive the council for thinking "well this lot don't seem to know what they want, and don't like anything we suggest, so in the meantime, let's concentrate on schools, housing, parks, social services, those sorts of fripperies".

There's going to have to be compromise. You can't always get what you want.