Frank Kitts Park

The great, and perhaps only, achievement of Wellington city councillors during their Annual Plan hearings was divorcing an upgrade of the playground in Frank Kitts Park from the creation of a proposed garden which will be so unsafe it will be locked at night.

The revelation that council officers were planning to spend $30 million on the park has even close followers of council affairs gasping over breakfast (Letters, July 1). Without debate on the playground this figure would not have been revealed during the Annual Plan process.

I have asked the council chief executive why my official information requests for the relevant costs went unanswered. I have made it clear that her answer will be useful in a formal postmortem on the handling of the Annual Plan process.

Having readers choke on their muesli is not good enough for Wellingtonians.

Michael Gibson, Karori