I am the father of a five- year-old girl, Lily, who has Down’s Syndrome.

Lily is developing very well and attends main stream school at North Wootton School.

Unfortunately her disability doesn’t allow Lily a normal sense of personal safety and obviously any body of water could act as a magnet and have potential fatal circumstances.

To this end I have been desperate to find a venue and teacher to enable Lily to swim.

We have tried St James Pool and LA Fitness, both of these pools are large areas with many students in a class.

Lily has found these environments terrifying and didn’t achieve much progress.

We were about to give up when we found out about a small, family-orientated swimming pool which specifically catered for children with special needs.

The class sizes are a maximum of six and the lessons are delivered in professional manner making special allowances for disabilities.

I am afraid that if we lose this much-needed community asset Lily and many children who need extra nurturing in a small controlled non-imposing environment will never have the chance to learn to swim.

This is a unique asset specifically catering for children who need more care and understanding in the pool environment.

The owner of the pool is aware of the concerns of the neighbour and of extra traffic, however, I fail to see how a mere six extra cars (maximum) at what would be an off-peak period would make to the area or other road users.

Mrs Ringwood is quite within her rights as an owner to open her pool to a 100 people a day as long as she wasn’t charging admission and running a business.

If you travel 100 metres up the road to the small shopping area incorporating takeaway outlets and a public house (The Swan) there you can at times encounter traffic chaos.

If the council’s planners traffic department are that concerned about public safety maybe they should concentrate on the many existing real traffic problems in Lynn before they make an issue where I, quite frankly, don’t believe there is one.

This venture went before the parish council for the second time and after a site visit was reassured of noise and traffic concerns and gave its full approval.

I hope good old common sense can prevail once again. The death of any child due to a water incident is one too many? How does your conscience feel today?

Mr Paul Edwards, 6 Wilson Drive, East Winch