The Conservative council, under severe financial pressure from the Conservative government, is trying to offload Lydiard Park. There are plans to transfer it to a trust, which could secure its future for the people of Swindon, but the proposed trust is unwilling to accept the transfer without provision for the works costing over a million pounds that they found were necessary to put Lydiard it in good repair. But another problem has now come to light. The council allowed the…