LAST week's Bucks Free Press reported on the continuing debate about the future of Wooburn Park, and readers may have got the impression that the Wooburn Park Sports Association is campaigning for a large scale development of the park.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The sports association, which represents 300 members of the tennis and cricket clubs, wants to see the facilities in the park improved sensibly and sensitively.

We are concerned that the current plans approved by Wooburn Parish Council will see large sums of public money (around £300,000 by the council's estimates) spent to redevelop the existing cricket clubhouse.

We think this is a missed opportunity. We doubt that funding will be found (the project will not qualify for Lottery or other sports-related grants) and have misgivings about the usefulness of the building (it is 200 yards from the car park), policing and security, disabled access, and the provision of services, especially mains drainage.

Instead, we think it would make much more sense to put any new building on the site of the existing tennis club.

We are suggesting a shared building smaller than the one envisaged by the council. We would demolish the existing cricket clubhouse, and move the cricket pitch to the west end of the park, resulting in no buildings within the park itself.

It would be a valuable new amenity for the residents of Wooburn.

We thus find ourselves in the odd position of promoting a project smaller than the one endorsed by those opposed to our plans. I rather think SALSA, the "Something A Lot Smaller Association", needs a name change!

Angus Porter, Chairman, Wooburn Park Sports Association, Treadaway Hill, Flackwell Heath