Of course I am glad that we will soon have swimming pools and some leisure facilities, and of course we should discuss how best to use the rather limited opportunities offered by the new building.
But I am angry that it is all so much less good than it could be because the decision making process was badly handled.

If you consult people you will of course not please all of them. But if you do consult you should make it clear from the start how the decision will ultimately be made. If you intend to give priority to the views of amenity groups then you should say that from the start and then everyone would know where they are even if they do not like it.

As it is, as Roz says, many people who live locally feel they were elbowed out of the process, that others who do not live here had too much influence, and that the listing of Louise House was done by an unrepresentative and unelected few, to the detriment of the rebuilding project and the community as a whole.

I hope that at least in the case of Louise House the Council will set up a consultation and decision making process that is clear to everyone and fair to those who live in Forest Hill