That's really not so, Les. EH visited the pools on 13 April 2005, and they were closed on 4 Feb 2006. EH published their report in Aug 2006 and Steve Bullock changed his mind and decided to go with demolition 13 Feb 2008. Thus when EH were preparing their report the pools were still open. Can you tell me where, in their report or elsewhere, they suggest that the present building should not be allowed to compromise a new one. As I said above, they are actually rather positive about the building.

On a slightly different tack, when I saw the designs I was surprised to see the north wall of the library, facing Louise House, lookng so good, especially in option 3:


That is certainly not how I recalled it, so I checked it out this morning:


The line of arched windows, quite as attractive as on the Thorpewood Avenue side, does not exist. It is actually the blank, unattractive wall to the right, in stock brick, with no windows and, originally, hidden by a building in the garden of Louise House and certainly not intended to be exposed. If the architect can take such liberties with a building which is there for him to copy, imagine what he can do with one which still, essentially, exists only in his mind.