The Draft Masterplan was out for consultation for about 5 months, yet the only amendments made have occured in the last week. Needless to say these token gestures were not well received by the community.

It has been a frustrating process, at every turn suggestions have been cast aside with reasoning along the lines of, you have misunderstood the facts and the ECC says they need it.

Throughout the process the council never held the ECC accountable to provide reasons for their requirements which included having two ovals together, the size of the ovals etc. Independent investigations were not conducted to determine if the ECC's demands were reasonable, they were just accepted because the ECC said so.

It is also distressing to note that the ECC's and the Council's response to community queries is the same. Time after time they both utlised the arguement 'you misunderstand the facts'.

I guess I misunderstood the fact that this decision was made months ago.

Our club has clearly stated and asked for the continuing need of open access and maintainance of the present parking facilities for our constant competitions and activities. We urgently need to be included in the final outcome of the planing decisions.