I'm a little puzzled. The Westmorland Gazette's front page report on February 2 ('Give us our lido back plea') claimed 2,000 people supported calls to re-open Grange lido as a pool.

This was gleaned from a facebook campaign. 2,000 is nearly half of the town. I've attended various lido presentations over the years and a public town council meeting that discussed the subject and have not noticed half of my fellow residents making any such demand. Quite the opposite.

Where is this 'army' that you talk about?

My next point concerns your online poll on the same subject. The last time I looked it showed 80 per cent in favour of restoring the lido. That's a big majority, which I suspect does not remotely reflect reality.

It is 80 per cent of the number of times a button was clicked on a computer. Not 80 per cent of the overall population.

Those who feel passionately about a cause tend to put themselves out and recruit others, which they have every right to do. But I don't think passion, nostalgia and wishful thinking can ever cap clear evidence and hard reality as a way of making important decisions. Particularly when you are asking others to pay for your choice.

An independent survey put the cost of doing what the campaigners want - restoring the lido - at several million pounds. Perhaps your could ask them where they intend to get the money from to restore it and then run and maintain it at a profit.

I notice Penzance Lido was quoted as an example of how it is possible. According to a tourist website that town has a population approaching 30,000. I believe it also has many more visitors than Grange and a slightly better climate.

I have not seen any costed plan from the campaigners, just tales of tackling obesity and their approval of art deco.

All they seem to be saying is how nice it would be to have the Lido back. I would want something a little more grounded in practicality. Photographs of someone gazing wistfully across Morecambe Bay just doesn't do it for me.

Norman Green

Grange-over-Sands