It was with astonishment that I read the latest report on the continuing saga of the Castle Sports Complex and the reported statements attributed to Coun Nick Worth in the Lincolnshire Free Press (July 1).
It reads as if we are being told we have no alternative than to move.
Some costs of refurbishing the swimming pool are given along with the increased management fees this would entail.
I ask how we have got into this situation? Why do we have
to sell off the Castle Field? Why have the present facilities deteriorated into their present state?
Surely when the Castle centre was first built, budgets, forward plans, cashflows etc were seriously looked into in order to keep the place in a good state of repair. If they were they got it seriously wrong and we are now being told we have to sell off "some of the family silver" to make up for this mistake.
It states that other monies will come from lottery funds, central government grants etc. All these monies have at some stage come out of our pockets as taxpayers or gamblers and it could be better used.
Following this pattern do we in another 20-30 years' time have to sell off more, probably Ayscoughfee Hall and gardens, with the lame excuse that we have run out of money again?
Come on, there must be someone who is responsible for this totally unacceptable situation and as community taxpayers and residents of Spalding we need to know because we don't have too many assets we can trade in if similar mistakes are made in the future! The "family silver" will soon run out and where do we go from there?
JOHN WARD
Hoekman Drive
Spalding
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