I wonder if the university in the city is going to be a ‘white elephant'. Tauranga City Council keeps telling us there will be 1100 enrolled next year in this campus. There are no carparks for the students. Other universities/technical institutes are seeing a decline in number of students enrolling, and in some cases even cancelling courses.

Speak to shop owners in the city and they say students will not bring much-needed customers to the city, only take up the carparks needed for shoppers. Why was the facility being built in the city rather than at Windermere or Tauriko?

I have just spent a few days in Christchurch and their city (still in the process of rebuilding) is not in the mess the Tauranga CBD is in.

W Galloway, Omokoroa.