Having been hugely inspired by the swimming competitions in the Olympic pools, I must say how utterly appalled I am at the beyond shocking management of swimming resources in Bournemouth and Poole.

Here we have in Bournemouth what claims to be a major British resort that has over 20 years destroyed not just one swimming pool, but two.

First, the lovely seafront Victorian pool was demolished and eventually replaced by a giant seafront warehouse (the Imax building) – then the replacement pool, built into the brand new BIC, in turn was demolished after only 10 years.

And in Poole it is just as shocking and appalling.

Our first-rate 33-metre Dolphin pool was hacked down at a cost of £200,000 to a smaller 25-metre pool.

And what I find every time I have tried to use the pool, the diving boards (the only ones in Dorset) are roped off and unavailable.

If you want to dive you ask permission which may or may not be granted by the management regime.

In all, it is a wholesale indictment of council management of our resources.

In Poole for instance, with another 17 metres added to the pool – investment instead of destruction – we could have a 50 metre olympic size pool.

And in Bournemouth it is still not too late to make use of the hugely expensive Imax building to put in an Olympic size indoor-outdoor pool complex.

If Britain can put together £7billion for Olympic buildings then Dorset can put together a couple of million and do something useful for our towns for the first time in many decades.

Jeff Williams Jubilee Road, Parkstone