‘Make your views known’

SIR, – I would endorse Sir Ian Wood’s plea for supporters of the City Garden Project to contact their councillors and make their views known.

Barney Crockett, Labour group leader on Aberdeen City Council, stated (the Press and Journal, May 10) that since it is councillors who carry the can, it must be councillors who make the decisions. However, councillors are elected to carry out the wishes of the population who elected them.

The negative-thinking Mike Shepherd and his group bemoan the publicity that the pro group could mount for their cause. Didn’t the anti lobby have access to wealthy individuals who could have funded their publicity? The answer is yes, but none of them had the commitment or foresight to promote an alternative plan.

I am confident that Sir Ian did not get where he is today by pussyfooting on investment options and spending millions on failed projects.

Isn’t the Labour Party against austerity and would rather have the purse strings loosened to get people into work? What better than to create a project on our own doorstep, under the city’s control.

Our councillors are accountable, and surely they would wish to be known not as an introverted council, with purely self interest at heart, but rather the council that put Aberdeen on the tourist map once again.

Remember the referendum result. Ian Will, Mid Stocket Road, Aberdeen.