Sir – Councillor Serge Lourie’s letter “Council leader writes to river protesters” (RTT, September 19) to owners of business premises showing the Save Our Riverside green poster states that present plans are "looking at around 15 houses (or possibly more if planning policies require smaller units)".
Could he please tell us how this squares with the council's own development brief, which calls for 13 houses and 14 flats?
What exactly is the “whole story” that his letter promises, but fails to reveal?
The facts of the story so far are that since 1980 the council has succeeded in preventing our swimming pool site becoming public open space.
The failure of the three schemes promoted and passed by the council (1990, 1996 and 2002) have effectively closed most of our riverside to the public and left the rest of it derelict for 28 years.
The money spent by the council, amounting to millions, on these failed schemes was paid out of our council tax.
As we have discovered, there is an overwhelming desire by the public that this site should be kept as public open space, and until the council accepts this, strong opposition will remain to the present proposal.
SAVE OUR RIVERSIDE GROUP
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