Hello Kelly Wake,

If you are interested in reading the notes reference the meeting at the Tor Sports and Leisure Centre, you are very welcomed.

Please post your email address and I will return details.

Jim Barron.

Kelly, just in case you miss below elsewhere on this site, have copied as you seem interested in the site.It's a response to JB's rant

Oh don't worry JEB, I read this garbage a while ago and have only recently thought to respond.

JEB refuses to recognise Professional or Qualified advice, opinion, analysis or report preferring to rely on his own limited, self interested vision and personal preferences.In fairness to JEB though, his past master MDC really shouldn't have let him off the leash, I mean you just shouldn't do that even with an untrained toothless rotweiller!You can't miss their pooh's though and we retain records of several incidences in this respect.

If anyone would like any REAL evidence of the condition of the fields, we have concise, accurate reports we commissioned from The Turf Research Institute, Institute of Groundsmen, Gloucester CCC and Somerset CCC.The soils are 80% clay silt, alluvial flood plain, the 50 year old land drains are all silted up, the fields have always been a problem as confirmed by the STRI report who reported to Morlands in 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's.

Our leaving Tor Leisure was determined by agreement that the case brought by MDC would inevitably fail at huge cost to the taxpayer.The taxpayer is still of course losing out as we speak, but the entire farce could so easily have been avoided had JEB originally swallowed the blue pill! Don't forget, MDC assigned us the lease with express intention of developing the site - and then they wouldn't let us!!!!!Then, they took us to court for not doing it rotflmao!!

As for our "obsession" re housing on the site?Take a look at http://tinyurl.com/7ruccfb the news page.It's long reading, but the site has unequivocally been identified as a prospective site and was discussed and appraised by MDC who commissioned the report.You would assume the Ward Councillor (or Counsellor lol!) would know about this report.If not he did a worse job than I ever did!!

DRC Actually, if we are to continue in the vain of fantasy and popular film genre, allbeit there's clearly no Love lost lol!

The buiding was seriously dilapidated when we took it on in 1998 as confirmed by Leisure Officer report - our open public forum redevelopment plans which you attended and supported along with the community, Town Council and Secretary of State gave the go ahead to spend the much needed 500k investment OF OUR MONEY.The rest is history, Tor Leisure could have been completetly renovated now, AT NO COST WHATSOEVER to the taxpayer.And you say you did a good job????maybe for Frome, Street and Wells - not for Glastonbury though.

As for a "King's ransom," you decided on that route as "Leisure Portfolio Holder", not me!!Good work!