Please consider the benefits

Sir, – From the furore surrounding the Keep Bankie Park Green camp one could be forgiven for thinking Anstruther’s green space was under threat from an industrial complex or rapacious property developer. The truth is far from it. What is being proposed is a relocation and modernisation of a council-owned and run care home which has happily co-existed with Bankie Park for decades but is now becoming unfit for purpose.

As a frequent visitor I know that the lift is unreliable, the corridors are too narrow for modern wheelchairs and bed-moving equipment and that the rooms are too small and lacking en suite toilet facilities.

What is missing in the current debate is a reasoned consideration of the rebuild plans.

And what is disappointing is that elected councillors – who should know better for they are responsible for the eventual decision and are obliged to consider all the pros and cons – are being pressurised into taking sides.

I urge those who have signed KBPG’s petition to study the proposals and have a re-think.

A modern, state-ofthe-art care home is surely at least as much a community asset as a play park.

They might also like to consider how they would be affected if unfortunate enough to develop dementia, Alzheimers, Parkinsons or other such afflictions in later life and there was no Ladywalk to provide the loving care it does now and that we all hope we might expect in extremis.

W W Motion. Bankside, Anstruther.