'Get real' with a smaller, quality design

With the promise of better things to come, the fully-functional Woy Woy public pool was demolished in April 2003.

This could be described as a premature move, as the people of the Woy Woy Peninsula have since gone without a pool whilst the site continues to lay fallow.

The design for the new leisure centre does not fully comply with many building regulations.

For this reason, a construction certificate (or green light) has not yet been issued.

Strangely, Council has already put the project to tender even though the design has not been finalised.

Tenderers have estimated the new leisure centre will now cost $20 million - that's $4 million over the project's budget!

Councillor Chris Holstein and his leisure centre committee need to "get real".

Their assumption that "bigger is better" has landed us with a costing blow out.

They need to come up with a smaller, quality design that the ratepayers of Gosford can afford.

Surely that would be better than a pile of rubble!

Michelle Cairns, Woy Woy