From a correspondent:

‘As the EDA website correctly points out, EDDC recognises that local government reorganisation is in the offing.

But Chief Executive Mark Williams has already stated that in the event of local government reorganisation, the Knowle would have to be sold. Save Our Sidmouth (SOS) recently issued a press release highlighting his comments. If the Knowle will be sold for this reason, as Williams predicts, then logically so would the new HQ at Honiton and the surplus space at Exmouth. Why, then, are we proposing to spend £10 million + on a new building that can only be sold for a fraction of that cost?

The extremely lame offering from EDDC is that the new building could be used as a bigger East Devon Business Centre. Unfortunately, that idea has been scuppered by their recently commissioned Carter Jonas report, prepared when they wanted to close the Business Centre and use the funds to build Skypark, which concluded that the Business Centre was out of date, under-used and losing money….