Sir, – The Victoria Baths, Manchester, the winning building in BBC 2's Restoration series was closed by the city council 10 years and left to rot. Thank goodness it has now been saved and eventually will be open again to the public.

No such luck for The Redgrave. One of the oft' heard phrases that cropped up in Restoration regarding the buildings under consideration was "What a wonderful space" and that's exactly what The Redgrave is, with huge potential for all kinds of use.

Waverley's plan to consider somewhere else for a theatre is just nonsense, restoration of The Redgrave would cost nothing in comparison to building or adapting somewhere else.

The reason I dislike the proposed East Street scheme is that it is wholly commercial, there is no vision. Assets like the tennis courts and "maybe" the theatre are to be pushed out of the way instead of where they should be, in the centre of town.

The Redgrave was once the jewel in Farnham's cultural crown brought down by mismanagement, aided and abetted I believe by Waverley. There can be no other reason why they gave so much public money to James Gatwood's disastrous and mismanaged tenure of the Theatre which led to its closure and the stripping of its assets.

Stand in the corner of Dogflud car park by the river, here is air, light and space. How long before it is just shadow?

Christopher Reeks, Hale Road, Farnham