“Very cross… very unhappy,” is how David sums up his emotions. For him, the membership (the place month-to-month charges for a full seven day membership had been round £130), was “very a lot a community-based” place, and its closure has left many locals having “misplaced a friendship group”. A former county planner in Oxfordshire, he argues: “Planning and well being are inextricably linked. Individuals have to train, they should have someplace to stroll, go, play, commune. Psychological well being and bodily well being are exceedingly undervalued in the mean time by planning.”
