The University of Bath's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Glynis Breakwell, must be oblivious to or couldn't care about the strength of feeling about the Coate area (Adver, January 12).
If the academic development envisaged by the University is viable only if the campus is sited next to the Great Western Hospital, then the University might as well give up on the idea now.
Unlike the hospital site where there was some public support for the idea after a great deal of black-mailing tactics were used, I have found no public support for the campus proposal at Coate.
Blackmail won't wash this time particularly after the reassurances that Coate would be protected from further development.
All of Prof Breakwell's reassurances, if the scheme goes ahead, that Coate Water SSSI, protected species and foraging areas will be safe, are pie in the sky.
Jean Saunders
(Swindon Friends of the Earth)
Longcot
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