Misleading perhaps, which is why I said' significant proportion of'.
Plenty of quibbling going on already about the formal consultation process, Michael! If thats not over statistics and methodology I don't know what! There have been claims for significant public support of the retention of the pools on the existing site ( the people have spoken?!) and I for one see no reason to be prevented from discussing the merits of such claims. You are however probably correct in saying the desirable state is to retain swimming on Dartmouth Road and its certainly more preferable for my family but what I still find lacking in this debate is a grasp of whats going on on the public spending front and the issues that Councils have to deal with. Many councils country wide are cutting their budgets drastically as the squeeze on public expenditure hits home hard and is destined to get much worse over coming months. Cuts in income lead to reduced gearing ratios and more expensive borrowing. I know of one Council which has suspended all its Building Schools projects as a result , perhaps indefinitely. And thats a key service impacting on school places provision.
My concern here is that we need to face economic reality and weigh up very carefully whether a pool in the wrong place is less or more desirable than no pool at all within the forseeable future. Given the situation I am very doubtful whether the Council will have the means to deliver any sort of pool anywhere in the next decade. However the debate seems instead to focus on political skullduggery and vote catching in the Mayors Office rather than the need to justify expenditure for a facility which is not an essential service.

Someone below mentioned consideration of short term gain issues taking precedence; if this is the general thinking, I don't actually for a moment think that the Mayor is trying to get a pool on WW asap to win votes in FH. He knows as we all do that Labours influence has dropped significantly in FH therefore there is nothing to be gained. If he wanted to boost his chances here he would be promoting Dartmouth Road. But then he lives here and regardless of what people think, this is probably means a more visibly stricter stance from his office.