THE current issue of Swindon News includes a council parks use survey. No mention is made of Coate Water in this feature.

Is this an accidental council oversight? Or is the omission a deliberate avoidance of embarrassment or hassle?

Although a relatively informal survey, in view of Government appointees' rebuke of our local authority's poor record on consultation, this Coate omission appears to be a bit of a gaffe.

Unless, of course, playing down Coate is connected to the rumour that general recreational use of the reservoir will gradually be discouraged and curtailed.

K BRAIN

Upham Road, Swindon