THE intended plan to build an extension of Bath University on the Coat Water site seems short sighted, ridiculous, and criminally negligent.
As well as ignoring the outrage of so many well intentioned and responsible citizens, the council is foolishly overlooking and wasting an exceptional opportunity.
Why build a common old bricks and mortar university, when an Open Air University is sitting right in your lap? The prospect of raising the profile of the Coate Water area into a site of national recognition and importance seems obvious.
The linkage to Richard Jefferies makes Coate Water an ideal place to develop a unique centre of learning, dedicated not only to the proud history of country and wildlife writing, but also to the evolution of this movement.
Why settle for the mundane when a centre for ecological studies is within your grasp. A centre to record and examine the evolving conflicts between human needs and nature. With environmental issues at the fore of the social agenda, how can the council be so stupid as to ignore the economic potential and social significance for Swindon already in place?
P ESMONDE
Shawnigan Lake, Canada
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