COUNCILLOR Sonja Crisp claims there are no plans to close Yearsley Pool (Letters, September 18).

However, the Labour group doesn’t really have a plan to keep it open either, other than to say ‘you come up with a plan, whilst we offload responsibility and absolve ourselves from blame’.

If the pool is so highly valued by Labour and not under threat, why review its future just before the new pool opens?

Conveniently the review and decision on the pool’s future will be taken after the local election.

The only clear commitment from Labour is that from 2016 they will give zero pounds to Yearsley pool, even though its future could be secured with 0.2 per cent of their budget.

When Cllr Alexander promised his Labour Party would not be like the ‘attack Yearsley’ Rod Hills Labour, the Yearsley Pool Action Group accepted this in good faith, along with the promises of the last two years.

We have been let down, but more importantly the pool, the broad needs of the different user groups, and wider community have been let down, not to mention the hard-working council staff who yet again face an uncertain future.

Fiona Evans, Yearsley Pool Action Group, Whenby Grove, Huntington.