That is the end tally of the votes by 1,700 respondents to the Beach FM Facebook straw poll, see earlier.

But it will go as that is what KCDC bosses decided should happen and they don’t care what the community want.  It’s hard to imagine that some use couldn’t have been found for it.

It’s also hard to see what’s wrong with the rest of the MacLean Park layout; unfortunately the forthcoming expensive makeover is just another example of a nice-to-have-but-non-essential-extravagance instead of infrastructure improvements which are essential.