M Treadwell’s comments on Temple Cowley Pools (ViewPoints, March 27) leads me to write to provide clarification.

Oxford City Council has spent more than half a million pounds over the past five years in maintaining and repairing the failing facilities at Temple Cowley.

This illustrates that the city council is doing what it can to keep the site open until the new pools complex is completed in Blackbird Leys.

Indeed, the new pools complex should already be open, but for the significant delays caused by ill-thought legal actions taken against the council.

Once the final legal challenge is dismissed by the High Court, and I am confident that it will, Oxford will receive a brand new and fit for purpose pools complex.

After this is built, the city council will look to dispose of the failing facility in Temple Cowley.

I should add that I am immensely pleased that a young student at Cherwell School has taken the time to research and to study the issues as part of her civics project.

I hope others will look at the facts and will see through the obfuscation and wilfully misleading comments put about by people who really should know better. The facts and business case for the new pools complex are clear and are well supported by professional experts.

VAN COULTER

Councillor and Executive Board Member for Leisure Services

Oxford City Council

Coniston Avenue

Oxford