I HAVE read with interest the debate on building the University of Bath near Swindon's Coate Water.

What I fail to understand is why Coate Water? It is the one reason I feel proud to be a Swindonian. It is an area of outstanding beauty, why ruin it?

There are plenty of brownfield sites that the university can be built on, just open your eyes and look.

To build a university and housing near Coate would be devastating for future and present generations.

A POLLARD.

Swindon