Our mayor appears to approve of the plan of the Waka Project Team to place a massive plastic item on The Strand waterfront.

Some things are made to go together - jelly and icecream, toast and honey.

Some things are not meant to share the same space - one being several stories of glaring white plastic blocking a fantastic harbour view.

If we really are going to have it, then surely it could be housed in a more suitable venue. It could even be useful.

Have all those involved read the many comments on the online section of this newspaper's article. Very few want it anywhere near our waterfront, so surely there must be a compromise - some wag suggested a good place - on top of the Council Chambers to escape a possible tsunami - escape routes being another unfinished and more necessary council project.

I hope none of this is coming out of our rates - the item itself or any payment to the project team who are so earnestly considering - without our consent - where to place something few want, in the most spectactularly wrong place.

Mayor Crosby - a reply in two parts please - who is paying for this, and at what cost?

R Bishop, Pyes Pa.