I was aghast to read recently of the proposed Wharf Street makeover.

Is this the same team that spent more than $4 million transforming an attractive, practical Phoenix Park into the ghastly concrete slab it is today?

The usual Tauranga City Council suspects initiated this Wharf Street transformation in 2015 at a cost of $3 million which drew adverse comments on design and obscene cost.

Now a further $5.6 million is allocated in a vain attempt to rectify what was beyond them at the outset. Already $320,000 has been spent on design work.

This figure does not include the usual council cost over-runs, of which we can be certain.

So in three to four years about $10million will be spent on this aberration… absolutely unbelievable!

Considering our current bourgeoning $500 million debt, that's an outrageous sum for yet another ‘vanity' project that this city can ill afford.

As a footnote, it is worth commenting that Wharf Street looks worse today than it was prior 2015 when present council approved this inane makeover project.

Hopefully new councillors will sort this mess out and stop the project by revoking any further funding for it.

T Fellingham, The Lakes.