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Do they have to do this?
Finally Lewisham Council has provided hairdryers for the changing rooms of the Ladywell Leisure Centre.
They weren't part of the £1,89M refurbishment.
And evidently this common sense provision for a swimming pool is not even a health and safety measure by law.
So to achieve this trivial, basic provision, we had to resort to question the Council at the full Council meeting of the 17th November2004.
And even after this formal procedure, it took several months for Lewisham Council to finally put its words into practice.
Are we happy now?
No, we're just outraged!
We're so outraged because even in doing this, Lewisham Council had to show us all how mean and insensitive it is.
The hairdryers cost 20p to operate!
Is
this the price that Lewisham Council put on everybody's health?
Let's
remember that hundreds of school children use the centre for their
lessons, that pregnant women go there for pre-natal classes, that old
frail pensioners that struggle to make end's meet and have to look at
the penny go there.
And we all pay the taxes that pay for the Councillors allowances and pension schemes.
And what do we get in return? It seems that in return we're just laughed at. ...read more...