SIR – Having sold off our Manningham Pool for the price of a terraced house, Bradford is now faced with a purchaser who is not completing the deal.

Not surprising, since any buyer would be well aware that if they attempt to redevelop the property for any other use but that for which it was built will find our entire community united in opposing any such change of use.

But Ian Greenwood could take advantage of this hiatus by having a rethink.

I mean, if he was prepared to let it go for pennies, why didn’t he tell us that we could have it for a mere £140,000? We could have raised the cash to keep it.

I, personally, have raised literally thousands of pounds in benefit concerts for charities like the African National Congress and Shelter, while my colleague Bruce Barnes, has been part of the Friends of Lister Park, who have raised even more to make the Park the best in the land. He has now set up Friends of Manningham Pool to do similar work.

While it would be my preference for the pool to remain a Council asset, there are more ways than one to skin a cat (if my feline friends will forgive the metaphor).

Karl Dallas, Save Manningham Pool Action Committee chairman (pictured with an elderly swimming group at the pool), Church Green, Bradford