Re: the regulation changes to pools in Tauranga . Interesting that council rep can say: 'Since the main goal is safety our intention is to work etc” when the same council has installed decked areas over ponds round Tauranga where a child can easily slip into these pools and drown.

But now they require pool owners to comply with new rules and regulations which at times it could cost many thousands of dollars to meet new requirements which councils are immune too as they supervise ponds, streams creeks, drains and the beaches without any safety requirements at all.

May affected pool owners should get together and fund a case against these requirements.

No fence on earth will stop an unsupervised child drowning in a pool. Carelessness causes drowning rather than a fence stopping them. Take your eyes of a child in a fenced pool and that child could drown.

A Bourne, Bethlehem.