"The two main options were set out in the report to Mayor & Cabinet at their meeting on the 16th May. That is redevelopment of Ladywell to provide a new facility or Loampit Vale . However all the consultation surveys allowed other comments to be made and where these have included a preference for refurbishment, they will be included in the results. Our consultation specialists advise that the number of interviewees who expressed the preference for refurbishment would not have increased if a specific option had been included."
This is an extract (the bolding of part of the text is ours) from the letter that Mr John Wolfenden, the consultant in charge of the consultation on the Ladywell/Loampit option wrote to those that answered to the consultation asking for a third option, namely refurbish Ladywell Pool.
Mr John Wolfenden is an ubiquitous service provider for Lewisham Council, in fact a few months ago, at the last consultation on the pool issue he was introduced to the public as the project manager for the new pool at Loampit Vale.
As hopeful project manager Mr Wolfenden was of course the last person in the world to be put in charge of a consultation that could potentially make a dent in his personal interests. In fact the "demolish Ladywell and rebuild it on site" option proposed by the consultation as the only possible alternative to the pool at Loampit Vale has a substantial degree of volatility both in its funding as well as in its timing.
It is of course the rufurbish Ladywell option that would be a serious setback for Mr Wolfenden.
Again Lewisham Council has shown lack of judgement and has asked him to make the Council's case against the refurbishment.
Click here to read a full specimen letter from Mr Wolfenden with our comments on his considerations.
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