Move to Spa site is collective insanity

The councillors and officers must have been at their wit’s end to propose spending £7m on a new building, which would take from us the beautiful open space leading to Jephson Gardens, as you approach it from the town centre.

To put a building of that magnitude outside one of the most lovely parks in the county and the jewel in the crown of the West Midlands seems to be beyond belief.

Parking will be a nightmare, and even if that problem is solved, the question of pollution will not. Diesel and petrol fumes would build up and contaminate the park, from the coming and going of innumerable officers, visitors and councillors. Such would have a serious detrimental effect particularly on the children who play there, apart from adults, aged or otherwise, as any pollution officer would know.

I don’t pretend to know the answer to the question of where to put the council offices, maybe on the Guy Street parking area or refurbishing of the town hall, but this proposal will be an act of vandalism of a magnitude that future generations will wonder at and despair.

David Phillips, Portland Mews, Leamington