Letter: Art attack

Andrew Dixon of Creative Scotland's "reply" to my criticism of the half a million pounds being squandered on Craig Coulthard's Forest Pitch project (Letters, 27 May) beggars belief.

Firstly, the so-called "60-year lifespan" of the project is Orwellian newspeak for the time it will take trees to overgrow the abandoned site. That's Mother Nature's work, not Creative Scotland's.

Secondly, for all his gobbledegook about "once-in-a-generation opportunity to showcase Scottish creativity", he does not explain how building two football pitches for two matches in the middle of nowhere in an area with pitiful public transport and roads somehow constitutes a "demonstrable public interest" linked to the Olympics which are primarily centred within a urban environment.

This is a disgraceful waste of limited public funds demanding investigation. To add insult to injury Mr Dixon has used the exact same letter in a number of newspaper letter pages to "answer" myriad diatribes, betraying the contempt Creative Scotland has for muggins the taxpayer.

Mark Boyle

Linn Park Gardens

Johnstone, Renfrewshire