Sir – I write with regard to the article (January 29), about the charitable organisation and Oxford City Council. To my mind Fusion Leisure can’t take over running Oxford City Council’s leisure facilities soon enough.

As an almost daily user of the Temple Cowley facility, I am sick to death of councilors bemoaning its state.

The reason it is in the condition it’s in is because the council have hardly spent a penny on it in recent years, the exception being the refurbishment of the gym in December 2008.

So after the £100,000 refurbishment of the gym, why is the council suggesting that the Temple Cowley facility be closed down within the next few years, and replaced with a new gym at Barton (the pool is notoriously difficult to get to at certain times of the day), and a 25-metre £6m swimming pool at Blackbird Leys? Temple Cowley Pools is ideally situated — it is on a bus route accessible from many areas, there are lots of businesses situated locally whose staff use the facility; it is ideal for local people — and an important part of the community, especially with the amount of new housing that has been built recently in the area.

The facility could become an even bigger part of the community if essential works were carried out, and it was better advertised — my hope from what I have read, is that Fusion Leisure could really help out here — by raising awareness and applying for charitable funds.

Could it be that the council is more interested in selling the Temple Cowley site for more building redevelopment and making a quick buck, rather than local people’s heath and interests?

Wendy Hayden, Cowley