If it’s good enough for Edinburgh...

Which Ian Wood are you talking about? Is it the Ian Wood who has shown undoubted skill and sagacity in building up his oil and gas interests? Or do you mean him in the guise of chancellor of Robert Gordon University, famous for his inane comment (when speaking during Donald Trump’s Doctorate Award) that the new Trump golf course in the Menie dunes would put Scotland on the world golf map. Most of us thought it was well established there already.

The Gardens proposal also fits into the inane class. The proponents tell us that redevelopment of the gardens will create better communications for the people of Aberdeen and improve safety. How that is to happen is not explained.

Two points seem to me to be very important, first there is little wrong with the gardens as they are, and secondly where does the council think it is to get the £200 million that this development would require? And despite the assurances that will undoubtedly be produced, does anybody really believe it would be done for the initial cost estimates?

I cannot understand what the council is thinking of; we still have many aspects of Aberdeen that cannot be treated due to lack of money, including potholes of Third World dimensions, and yet they plan to spend this sort of money on a development that is not even wanted by the majority of the people who have already voted on the project.

I suspect it is a case of Edinburgh envy. Aberdeen Council have seen the chaos and cost overrun created in Edinburgh and have decided that Aberdeen should have some of the same.

Eric Davidson,

Cults, Aberdeen