My facts are correct on Sea Scout plan

l The covenant contained in the conveyance of the land.

l The Sea Scouts’ plans for the HQ clearly showing the height of the building above that of the houses.

l Warwick District Council feasibility study commissioned for inclusion in a lottery bid but subsequently excluded.

l The Local Plan which shows Myton Fields in the area of restraint, conservation area and designated protected open space. Policy states it is a designated open space of public value for recreation and visual amenity and not ‘an overflow car park’.

l The proposed site is indeed in the flood plain (flood zone 2), see Environment Agency Flood Risk Map.

l Historical evidence of local flooding.

With these facts in mind, my view has never changed that the proposed site is unsuitable with a high possibility of failure at the planning stage, thus risking a loss of circa £8,000 of the Sea Scouts’ precious funds.

I answered my voters’ appeal for support but strangely not one of the Sea Scout leaders or parents approached their ward councillors for help or advice. I have on several occasions publicly offered a meeting with them but to no avail. The residents and local councillors will confirm that they were not consulted before the Sea Scouts announced the proposal. If they had been, all of these flaws in the proposal would have been glaringly obvious. Indeed the Sea Scouts had already been made aware of some of these during the confidential planning process. Any ‘anger and frustration’ has arisen because this proposal has not been thought through properly.

I am pleased that the light has dawned on Mr Tilden Smith who now accepts my call for discussion on an alternative site but I’m afraid the Social Bond funding route is inappropriate to this development. - Cllr Linda Bromley, via email.