THE one thing missing from your recent article on Temple Cowley Pools was that the campaigners had taken the trouble to go round all the leisure facilities noting their energy efficiency details. Of all the facilities it turned out that Temple Cowley Pool was the most efficient.

Like many other people I can’t understand why the Labour majority on the council was so determined to close it down, when a lesser sum of money than that being lavished on the same size pool at Blackbird Leys could have transformed the pool at Temple Cowley.

Oxford Mail: Splashing out at Temple Cowley Pool

Temple Cowley pool

I worry for the many young and elderly people, who will not be able to make the extra journey to the proposed Blackbird Leys Pool. I know of one woman who recovered quickly and impressively from a heart attack, mainly because she could access the facilities at Temple Cowley.

It contravenes the city’s own planning laws to demolish a sports facility without providing another in the same locality. The proposed pool in Blackbird Leys could claim only to be in the locality of the old Blackbird Leys pool, not the one in Cowley.

Users of the Temple Cowley Pool need to challenge any attempt to demolish their pool without providing a replacement in their locality.

NUALA YOUNG former Green Councillor of St Clements

Tree Lane

Oxford