New Hydrotherapy pool - daily leaking community money.
We regularly attend Peterborough City Council Meetings on your behalf. (Any citizen can attend and sit in the Public Gallery, they will also be given a copy of the Agenda and background documents ) The April 13th council meeting - just 8 weeks ago - saw all local councillors donating to the therapy pool from their community funds. The fund is of course yours and the donation made is your money from your council tax, intended to be spent in your area. All Stanground councillors donated towards the pool, so Stanground and Park Farm Councillors' alone have already donated or flushed away around £3,500....
So we were very surprised to see this story in Saturday’s Evening Telegraph:
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/community/community-news/use_it_or_lose_it_warning_for_pool_1_2806574
The City Council meeting in April had reported the pool to be ‘centre of excellence’, and impassioned speeches further rashly claimed 200 people made regular use of the pool. Our question to all our local councillors is how come only two months later it is already running into problems? Our second question is why did you pour money from the community fund for our neighbourhoods into projects serving ( or seemingly not serving ) another distant neighbourhood?
No GP referrals and why no supporting research with GP’s before spending Stanground and Park Farm community funds on what is turning out to be a wet elephant ? The truth is that medical opinion over the passive use of heat and hydrotherapy has changed in recent years in favour of more active manipulation, the type you can easily get with gentle flotation and a dog paddle at any swimming pool ....
The Hydrotheraphy pool will also be facing a massive hike in energy costs to heat it, up by 40 per cent in some cases.... You might also ask if the facility was such a 'centre of excellence' why has the new City Hospital not bothered to include one?
Each elected councillor has a community leaders fund and apart from some cursory application details, usually put togther by 'professional' advisers, the money is handed over with few further questions asked and even less follow ups....
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