We don't want a uni here (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

We don't want a uni here

I HAVE never written to a newspaper before but the Coate Water debate is such a fundamental issue that I feel I must put pen to paper.

My interest is that I spent the first 18 years of my life from 1938 to 1956 living at Woodbine Terrace, Coate.

As far as I see it Swindon Council is hooked on the city status drug. And what do you need to become a city? That's right a university. In this case it happens to be Bath but when the chips are down to hell with it, any university would fit the bill.

Bath University demands building at Coate Water. Nowhere else will do. This is a problem for the council because Coate Water is sacred ground, part of this fast diminishing green and pleasant land. The councillors know as we all know that the voters love Coate Water.

So what decision will the council come to? Will it be go home to Bath you are not wanted.

Come on people of Swindon rise up and vote to keep Coate Water the way it is. Don't rely on your councillors. The decision they have made in the past has made the town what it is today. It can be summed up in just three depressing words, Third Division (South).

M HOLLISTER

Beaufort Road, Wroughton