REGARDING Ms Carolyn Tucker's letter of September 21, regarding the facilities at Plumstead Leisure Centre.

It is disgraceful Greenwich Council is merely paying lip service to the health and fitness regime it is advocating, while starving the leisure centre of much-needed funds.

In the three years I have used the gym there has been very little money spent.

No new equipment has been provided, only second-hand equipment.

And when equipment fails it takes weeks or sometimes months to be repaired or replaced.

They fail to maintain the premises yet have the audacity to threaten closure using the excuse of health and safety.

W J GREEN

Abbey Wood